I. ACTVE INTO PASSIVE VOICE:
1. they were selling things when the fight began
2. you must have seen the prices in the shop window
3.i wish you had met me at the station
4. you have to make the greatest effort in fulfilling the plan in time
5. somebody mus do sonething for these poor men
6. no one paid him for the work
7. the other told the student where to sit
8. did nobody ever teach you how to behave ?
9. they will speak to me
10. they believed that these boys had lernt the subject
11. i want you to do this exercise
12. the teacher made us do a lot of homework
13. i don't think anyone can do it
14. i want you to leave me alone
15. did they say anything interesting ?
16. she found the woman crying
17. what did they pay you for doing the job?
18. i will send you the good as soon as they are available
19. peope say he was the best writer of his time
20. her beauty made him crazy
21. chldren couldn't heve done this damge
22. you shout but your money to good use of leaving it idle in the bank
23. smoke filled the kitchen
24. pants covered the gold lock
25. we are doing these exercises given by the teacher
26. the ought to tell us how much they expect of us
27. he hates peole keeping him waiting
28. i saw him walk down the road
29 i noticed him beaten badly
30. he likes people to call him professor
31. you had better clean the floor
32. they happenned to see the ghost
33. why didn't you either lock your car or put in into the grage?
34. didn't they tell you to be here by 6 o'clock ?
35. a thief stole my dog and broughr him back only when i offered $20 reward for him
36. someone told me not to open the door
37. i will bring him to the court unless he pay me back $20 000
38. it is rumounred that she has killed herself
39. he didn't talk about anyone here
40. nobody caught him unclock the safe
41. she never lets her children go out by themselves
42. he begins to take his children out in the evening
II. CHANGE THE FOLLOWING ACTIVE SENTENCES INTO THE PASSIVE :
1. people should save pandas fromextinction
2. peole must obey all traffic laws
3. someone ought to repair this broken window
4. someone shoul have supplied the hotel guests with clean towels
5. someone had better take this garbage to the dump soon
6. people can pick tomatoes before they are completely
7. someone must have hurt Petter's felling
8. someone has to finish this work today
1/ We are to pity rather than despise these homeless boys
=> These homeless boys are to be pitied rather than to be despised
2/ Don’t let the others see your
=> Don't let yourself be seen by the others
3/ Did anybody ever teach you how to behave?
=> Were you ever taught how to behave?
4/ It surprised me to hear someone had robbed you
=> I was surprised to hear you had been robbed.
5/ People ought to tell us how much they expect of us
=> We ought to be told how much people expect of us
1/ We are to pity rather than despise these homeless boys
- These homeless boys are to be pitied rather than to be despised
2/ Don’t let the others see your
- Don't let yourself be seen by the others
3/ Did anybody ever teach you how to behave?
- Were you ever taught how to behave?
4/ It surprised me to hear someone had robbed you
- I was surprised to hear you had been robbed.
5/ People ought to tell us how much they expect of us
- We ought to be told how much people expect of us