PRACTICE WITH PASSIVE VOICE
Exercise 1 Open the brackets and use the right tense of the verb in passive.
1. The investment (to make) in the last quarter, but for some reason it (not to have shown) in the accounts.
2. At the final stage the finished products (to store) in the warehouse ready for dispatch.
3. We would like the tax (to carry) forward to next year.
4. We are interested in (to inform) about new developments.
5. New banking technologies (to develop) recently.
6. The figures (to prepare) by our new accountants.
7. At the final stage the finished products (to pack) into boxes.
8. Hard hats must (to wear) оn the building site at all times.
9. The profitability and long-term, strength of the company (to affect) by capital investment.
10. Some market research (to do) before they set up the company.
Exercise 2 Make the sentences passive. Use by if it is necessary to say who does the action.
1. The directors are still considering your application.
2. The lawyers didn't draw up the contract, so we are not ready to go ahead with the deal.
3. We have automated our production lines.
4. We expected that the rate of inflation will rise.
5. They made me give them details of my bank accounts.
6. We are going to make 50 per cent of our production at our Bahrain plant.
7. The company is expanding its range of services.
8. We are relocating our headquarters in Malaysia.
Exercise 3 Supply suitable active and passive forms in these sentences using the verb in brackets. Some variations in tenses may be possible.
1. It isn't clear how far the ozone layer (damage) has been damaged by aerosol sprays. It may be possible to say whether the hole over the Antartic (widen) has widened after the area (investigated) has been investigated by high-lying planes.
2. These days, even the most remote places on earth (visit) by tourist. Package tours (can/arrange) for almost anywhere, from the Himalayas to the Amazonian jungle.
3. Notices such as (English/Speak) and (Shoes/Repair) are common. Sometimes they (translate) into different languages for the benefit of tourists.
4. We (constantly remind) of the way the world (become) smaller when events taking place in different parts of the globe (flash) on our television screens.
5. If you (involve) in a car accident and someone (hurt) , you (have to) report the matter to the police. If only the vehicles (damage) , driven should exchange names and addresses.
Exercise 4 Imagine that, rich and famous, you return to your old home town after fifty years. A lot of things are different. Make sentences, using words from the boxes and the present perfect passive.
1. Cafe Royal
7. ring road
2. houseboats
8. station
3. new car park
9. streets
4. new schools
10. town centre statue of you
5. opera house
11. Super Cinema
6. old fire station
12. your house
build
modernize
put up in park
rebuild
widen
turn into casino
floating restaurant
museum
supermarket
theatre
pedestrian precinct
Exercise 5 Make some sentences beginning I (don't) like ... ing or I (don't) want to, using verbs from the box.
Examples: I like being talked to. I don't want to be forgotten.
Admire
criticize
forget
give presents
ignore
invite out
laugh at
like
listen to
look at love
need
shout at take seriously
talk about
alk to
undervalue
Exercise 6 Complete the text with expressions from the box.
a) had been given
b) had been told
c) had never been taught
d) was given (twice)
e) was offered
f) was promised
g) was sent
h) was shown
i) wasn't being paid
I'll never forget my first day at that office. I a b c d e f g h i to arrive at 8.30, but when I got there the whole place seemed to be empty. I didn't know what to do, because I a b c d e f g h i no information about the building or where I was going to work, so I just waited around until some of the secretaries began to turn up. Finally I a b c d e f g h i a dirty little office о n the fifth floor, where I a b c d e f g h i desk in a corner. Nothing happened for an hour; then I a b c d e f g h i some letters to type on a computer by one of the senior secretaries. This wasn't very successful, because I a b c d e f g h i how to use a computer. (In the letter I a b c d e f g h i when I a b c d e f g h i the job, I a b c d e f g h i computer training, but they'd obviously forgotten about this.) By lunchtime things hadn't got any better, and I decided that I a b c d e f g h i enough to put up with this nonsense, so I walked out and didn't go back.
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