Grammar Exercises
Passive Voice
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I. Change the following sentences from active to passive. Keep the same tense with each change:
1. The police asked each of us about his movements on the night of the crime.
2. No one can do anything unless someone gives us information.
3. They will say nothing more about the matter if someone returns the stolen gun.
4. A thief stole my dog and brought him back only when I offered $ 20 reward for him.
5. The judge gave him two weeks to pay the fine.
6. An uneasy silence succeeded the shot.
7. The lawyer gave him the details of his uncles will.
8. The suspect will give his evidence next week.
9. The detective is investigating this serious criminal case now, he is still collecting evidence against criminals.
10. I think the judge will pass the sentence tomorrow.
11. I cannot meet you tomorrow morning. I shall be representing Jack Green before the Court.
12. The jury is still discussing the verdict.
13. The investigator has collected evidence on the case.
14. The state and public organizations had discussed the Draft of the new Constitution before it became the law.
15. If you come to the court late in the afternoon the judge will have declared his decision.
16. The night court has dismissed the prisoner’s appeal.
17. The court was still examining all the details of the murder at the time.
18. Somebody might have stolen your car if you had left the keys.
II. Rewrite the following newspaper report using passive forms of the verbs underlined.
Daring Raid at Local Hotel
Thieves (1) held the manager of the Ridgeway Hotel at gunpoint last night during a daring raid in which they (2) took nearly 50,000 from the hotel safe. They also (3) broke into several of the bedroom and (4) removed articles of value. The thieves made their escape through the kitchen, where they (5) damaged several pieces of equipment. They (6) injured the chef when he tried to stop them and (7) left him lying unconscious on the floor. Police (8) arrested the thieves early this morning.
III. Use the world in capitals in each line making it passive in the correct tense form.
Arthur’s life of crime
At his last trial, nobody believed in Arthur’s innocence.
He ___________ of the theft of a valuable Chinese vase, ACCUSE
and ___________ also with ten other offences. CHARGE
The value of the stolen good __________ to be over 10,000. SAY
Arthur said in his own defence that the vase __________ into PUT
his car accidentally.
It __________ by him that the Chinese vase was a fake, and POINT OUT
was almost worthless.
The judge didn’t believe Arthur’s story. Arthur __________ he TELL
was a hardened criminal and that he deserved a severe punishment.
Then Arthur _________ by the judge to five years imprisonment. SENTENCE
Arthur just smiled. He had spent most of his life in prison and
so he ___________ to it. USE
Present Continuous Passive
A dead body has been found, and the police have arrived on the scene. Say what is happening. Use the passive form of the present Continuous. Example: The body is being examined.
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Present Perfect Passive. Write the newspaper headlines as sentences using the present perfect. Some sentences are active and some are passive.
Examples: COST OF LIVING GOES UP
The cost of living has gone up.
GOODS DAMAGED IN FIRE
Some goods have been damaged in a fire.
MAN KILLED IN MOTORWAY ACCIDENT
CHILDREN IJURED IN GAS EXPLOSION
PICTURE STOLEN FROM MUSEUM
SECRET PAPERS LOST
DEAD BODY FOUND IN PARK
TEST YOURSELF
Choose the correct answer.
1. The event ________ before they arrived home.
a) reported b) had been reported c) was being reported d) has been reported
2. I ___________ a letter by an unknown person yesterday.
a) gave b) have been given c) was given d) have given
3. Robert Gibbs, the great plane robber __________ the police yesterday.
a) was arrested by b) arrested c) has arrested d) arrested by
4. My suitcase __________ from the hotel room.
a) stole b) has stolen c) was stolen d) was being stolen
5. Last night I __________ by the police as I was driving home.
a) stopped b) have been stopped c) was stopped d) have stopped
6. We hope that an agreement ___________ .
a) was arrived b) arrived c) will be arrived at d) will arrive
7. Your key must __________ before 11:30 a.m.
a) return b) be returning c) be returned d) have returned
8. Because of an extremely high accident rate, restrictions on teenagers’
driving ___________ at the next City Council meeting.
a) will discuss b) are discussed c) will be discussing d) will be discussed
9. Many of the early British settlers in Australia were criminals who were able not ___________ by agreeing to live on and develop the land there.
a) be imprisoned b) to imprison c) to be imprisoned d) being imprisoned
10. The government has announced that taxes ___________.
a) are raised b) will raise c) will be raised d) had been raised
11. I was announced that the international treaty against weather warfare ___________ and had gone into effect.
a) would have been ratified b) is ratified c) had been ratified d) was ratified
12. The house where the dead man was found ____________ by the police to prevent it from being entered and the evidence interfered with.
a) is guarded b) will guard c) is been guarded d) is being guarded
13. A police car came when the injured man ___________ the road.
a) was being carried off b) was been carrying off c) has been carried off d) was carried off
14. The notorious spy ___________ from the country.
a) was being deported b) was deported c) deported d) has deported
15. Your brother ___________ unless he pays his fine.
a) will release b) will be released c) is released d) will not be released
16. The police are watching a house in London; they think the house __________ by people who sell drugs.
a) is used b) was used c) is being used d) has used
17. She returned home to find her house _______________.
a) has been burgled b) was burgled c) had been burgled d) is burgled
18. Accidents ____________ often by carelessness.
a) cause b) are caused c) are causing d) have been caused
19. The juvenile problems ___________ still __________.
a) have discussed b) are being discussed c) were discussed d) discussed
20. The criminal code ____________ by the end of the month.
a) will have been published b) will publish c) are publishing d) is published
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