EXERCISES FOR 1º BACH
PUT THE FOLLOWING IN THE
PASSIVE VOICE.
1. You should open the wine about three hours before you use it.
2. Somebody has cleaned my shoes and brushed my suit.
3. We heat the room by electricity.
4. In some districts farmers use pigs to find truffles.
5. They are pulling down the old theatre.
6. The local boys have broken all the windows in the new library.
7. Someone will serve refreshments.
8. People must not leave bicycles in the hall.
9. The burglars had cut an enormous hole in the door.
10. No one can do anything unless someone gives us more information.
11. The organizers will exhibit the paintings till the end of the
month.
12. They will say nothing more about the matter if someone returns the
stolen gun.
13. The judge gave him two weeks in which to pay the fine.
14. Who wrote it?
15. They showed her the easiest way to do it.
16. Goya couldn't have painted it as people didn't wear that style of
dress till after his death.
17. The author has written a special edition for children.
18. Did the idea interest you?
19. The lawyer gave him the details of his uncle's will.
20. Most people opposed this.
21. Students are doing a lot of the work.
22. Anyone with the smallest intelligence could understand these
instructions.
23. We will not admit children under sixteen.
24. The bill includes service.
25. People don't use this road very often.
26. They cancelled all flights because of the fog.
27. Somebody accused me of stealing the money.
28. They are building a new ring-road round the city.
29. They have changed the date of the meeting.
30. Brian told me that somebody had attacked and robbed him in the
street.
31. They don't pay Jim very much.
32. They will ask you a lot of questions at the interview.
33. Nobody told me that George was ill.
34. His colleagues gave him a present when he retired.
35. We will send you your examination results as soon as they are ready.
36. They didn't ask me my name.
37. I think they should have offered Tom the job.
38. People should send their complaints to the head office.
39. They had to postpone the meeting because of illness.
40. Somebody might have stolen your car if you had left the keys in it.
41. They shouldn't have played the football match in such bad weather.
42. They are following us.
43. They don't allow smoking in cinemas.
44. They are demolishing the old school.
45. We can't do anything without the permission of the authorities.
46. We can solve the problem.
47. People should send their complaints to the head office.
48. They had to postpone the meeting because of illness.
49. Somebody might have stolen your car if you had left the keys in it.
50. And electrical fault could have caused the fire.
