Exercicis d'ampliació:
I.
Circle the correct answer.
- Her idea took / was taken for granted.
- The wind has broken / has been broken their
glass door.
- Italian speaks / is spoken in Switzerland.
- His book is reading / is being read at the
moment in the high society circles.
- Da Vinci had painted / had been painted Mona
Lisa before some of his other famous paintings.
- Anna
Karenina was writing / was written by
Tolstoy.
- The prize will give / will be given to her by
the president.
- We are going
to leave / be left alone by our
teachers if we change our attitude.
- Why can’t
you tell / be told me the truth?
- Their
brother has employed / has been
employed for six years.
- He gave / was given a present to her.
- She gave / was given this present for her wedding anniversary.
- My bike runs / is run very fast.
- He knocked down / was knocked down by
a bike yesterday.
- Her house ruined / was ruined in the fire.
- I
don't know anything about building. I will
have built my house / will have my house built.
- Although
she is a professional cook, she has
all her cakes made / makes all the
cakes.
- She
is a hair-dresser, so she has had
her new hair-style done / has done her new hair-style.
- I
didn't go to the post office. I had
all the letters sent by my secretary / had sent all the letters.
- Our son had his bike repaired / repaired his bike. We are so proud of
him.
- Make the following sentences active.
- Were you
told to show your luggage?
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- Our
conversation is being recorded by the police.
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- The cake
will have been taken out of the oven by lunch time.
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- We are going
to be given the handouts by the lecturer.
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- The word
“Croatian” should be written with a capital letter.
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- Our flight
has just been announced.
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- Opals are
mined for in Australia.
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- The drinks
were being served by a handsome bartender.
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- Several
students had been punished by that teacher before the parents were warned
about the problem by the authorities.
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- The essays
are to be handed in at the end of the week.
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- Make the active sentences passive and the
passive ones active.
- If the
television set had been repaired properly, it wouldn’t have broken down
again.
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- Fish fingers
don’t have to be defrosted before they are fried.
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- The bride’s
aunt is going to prepare all the food for the wedding reception.
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- The towels
aren’t washed every day by the hotel staff.
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- His young
assistant was counting the leaflets.
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- Their
apartment is being redecorated by a famous interior designer.
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- The students
have not yet used the new laboratory.
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- The document
must have been erased.
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- Someone
ought to have reported it to the principal.
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- He was
believed to have been killed by the terrorists.
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II.
Put the verbs in brackets into the
appropriate passive form.
- The
conference was over after the final conclusions __________ (draw).
- Look at this
beautiful lace! Where __________ it __________ (make)?
- The report
__________ (give) next Saturday.
- What’s going
on in your house? __________ it __________ (occupy) by some party goers?
- The old oak
tree __________ (knock) down in the heavy storm yesterday.
- Jane is not
here. She __________ (take) to
hospital.
- I have
decided it. I __________ (prepare)
well for the final exam next week.
- It is such
an interesting poster! Who __________ it __________ (create) by?
- They
__________ (humiliate) in public for more than two hours before the police
finally arrived.
- I
__________ (tell) the whole story.
That’s why I can’t judge them.
- He must
__________ (support) by very
powerful people during his last campaign.
- A lot of
paintings __________ (steal) last
summer, but luckily they have all been found.
- Who
__________The Titanic __________ (direct) by?
- I have
forgotten to do it, but I promise, it __________ (do) in a minute.
- This coat
can’t __________ (wash) in a washing machine.
- _________________
(injure) in a car accident, she never wanted to drive again.
- This project
has got ______________ (finish) before the end of the month.
- She loves
___________ (take) to a restaurant.