THE PASSIVE

1. We clean the garages every day.

The garages are every day.
2. Someone has given him a lot of money.
3. They were painting the outside of the ship.
4. The police arrested two hundred people.
5. We check every car engine thoroughly.
6. The boss is interviewing him at the moment.
7. We export this computer to seventy different countries.
8. They have cancelled the meeting.
9. We opened the factory at nine o’clock.
10. They send two million books to America every year.
11. They are mending your shoes at the moment.
12. We have invited all the students in the school.
13. Someone was carrying the bomb to a safe place when it exploded.
14. He took two people to the hospital.
15. We have told him not to be late again.
16. They posted all the letters yesterday.
17. The machine wraps the bread automatically.
18. They paid me a lot of money to do the job.
19. Fortunately, they didn’t damage the machinery.
20. We send the newspapers to Scotland by train.
21. Burning coal or oil causes acid rain.
22. The washing machine was cleaning my suit at the time.
23. We don’t allow smoking in this restaurant.
24. I have told the children about the party.
25. About thirty million people are watching this programme.
26. Someone’s moved my chair!
27. The police are questioning Mr. And Mrs Davison.
28. Someone checks the water level every week.
29. We invited two hundred people to the wedding.
30. A thief stole Ann’s purse.
31. Did a cat kill the bird?
32. My cat didn’t kill the bird.
33. A squirrel didn’t bite the jogger.
34. A dog bit the jogger.
35. Do a large number of people speak English?
36. Did Johnny break the window?
37. Is the janitor going to fix the window?
38. More than 100 people have signed the petition.
39. Did Shakespeare write A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
40. Ernest Hemingway didn’t write A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
41. Will a maid clean our hotel room?
42. Does the hotel provide clean towels?
43. Sometimes my inability to understand spoken English frustrates me.
44. Someone established the Red Cross in 1864.
45. When did someone establish this school?
46. Someone collects the garbage on Thursdays.
47. No one will collect the garbage tomorrow.
48. People spell “writing” with one “t”.
49. People don’t spell “writing” with two “its.”
50. Someone is going to build a new hospital next year.
51. When did someone build the Suez Canal?
52. Jack wrote that composition.
53. The University of Minnesota has accepted me.
54. People don’t teach calculus in elementary school.
55. People held the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
56. No one delivers the mail on holidays.
57. Will someone deliver the mail tomorrow?
58. Someone made my tape recorder in Japan.
59. Where did someone make your tape recorder?
60. My grandfather made that table.
61. No one has ever hypnotizes me.
62. Did my directions confuse you?
63. Columbus discovered the New World.
64. Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.
65. Water surrounds an island.
66. A maid will clean our hotel room.
67. A plumber is going to fix the leaky faucet.
68. A doctor has examined the sick child.
69. The police arrested James Swan.
70. A large number of people speak Spanish.
71. The secretary is going to type the letter.
72. The teacher’s explanation confused Carlos.
73. My mistake embarrassed me.
74. Helicopters fascinate children.
75. Has anyone ever hypnotized you?
76. Something confused me in class yesterday.
77. Something embarrassed me yesterday.
78. Someone filmed many of the Tarzan movies in the rain forest in Puerto Rico.
79. Someone has changed the name of this street from Bay Avenue to Martin Luther
King Way.
80. They have sold all the pictures in the shop.
81. They are offering computers at reduced prices.
82. Nowadays, we are using computers in many fields.
83. Specialists will repair the roof of the Prado Museum.
84. You must put these books back on the shelf.
85. Thieves stole several paintings from the museum.
86. By the time we notified the police about the accident, someone else had called
an ambulance.
87. We didn’t take the children to the shopping centre.
88. Have you cleaned up the mess?
89. They don’t advertise this restaurant in the local paper.
90. Did they build this bridge in 1987?
91. Have they painted the bedroom in blue?
92. Can you light the candle?
93. Do you clean the kitchen every day?
94. Does he grow vegetables in the garden?
95. Did Picasso paint Guernica?
96. They must read the book several times.
97. You have to book the seats before nine.
98. They are going to plant some flowers there.
99. I think someone is following me.
100. The police will investigate the crime.
101. The cold weather killed many plants.
102. They sell that medicine at the chemist’s.
103. A Spanish athlete broke the world record.
104. At the moment, they are painting our house.
105. They will announce the results soon.
106. Somebody delivers pizzas to the door.
107. They will probably close the road because of the fog.
108. British scientists discovered a cure for the illness.
109. Somebody has taken some money out of the box.
110. Parents should collect their children from school at 4.00 p.m.
111. A man in a suit was driving the car.
112. Someone had left a blue coat on the chair.
113. You can record songs from the Internet.
114. We have told those students not to do it again.
115. They saw three men going into the house.
116. Someone has already answered that question.
117. They might notice the disappearance of the painting.
118. By 11.00 a.m., they had nearly finished the job.
119. They speak Spanglish in the USA.
120. They gave me some good advice.
121. You should take this medicine before each meal.
122. Lian Stavans has published a dictionary of Spanglish.
123. The milkman delivers the milk in England.
124. You will find the information you need on the Internet.
125. Two inspectors are visiting our school on Monday.
126. They serve the beer in pint glasses.
127. A number of prestigious Puerto Rican poets use Spanglish.
128. Julia Hill defended the redwood forest.
129. They’ve offered him an interesting job.
130. Teenagers will organize the exhibition.
131. They didn’t pay for the tickets in advance.
132. My friends took me to the restaurant.
133. They are returning the books to the library.
134. They are going to give him a prize.
135. People can use this road.
136. You should check these files.
137. People were using the computes all over the world.