ADVANCED GRAMMAR ONE

WORKSHEET #6

1. Answer the following questions:

- How is a passive voice sentence formed?
SUBJECT (IS CHANGE FOR THE OBJECT) + BE/GET + PAST PARTICIPLE + (BY+AGENT)

- What is a transitive verb?

A transitive verb is one that only makes sense if it exerts its action on an object.

- What are the steps that must be followed to change a statement from active to passive voice?
Move the active sentence's direct object into the sentence's subject slot. Then Place the active
sentence's subject into a phrase beginning with the preposition by. Finally, Add a form of
the auxiliary verb be to the main verb and change the main verb's form.
2. Change these sentences from active into passive voice.
- People in Canada speak English and French……English and French are spoken in Canada.
- They are building a new elevator at ICPNA…… A new elevator is being built at Icpna.
- The teacher will give a chicken tamale to each student……A chicken tamale will be given to each
student by the teacher.
- Cinemark has removed that movie from its movie listing…...That Movie has been removed from the
movie listing by Cinemark.
- The cafeteria gave free quinoa cookies to each student…...Quinoa cookies were given by the
cafeteria.

3. What improvements should be done in your house? Use modal or modal-like expressions in the
passive.
- My house can be repainted in a near future.
- The kitchen should be remodeled the next month. It’s too old.
- A new bathroom must be done in our house the next year. Only 1 is not enough.
- A new computer must be bought in 2 years. The one that I have it’s a little old.

- The furnitures in our house should be changed in the next months.

4. Write about five services you arranged for someone else to do for you using the passive causative.
- I had my camera fixed.
- I have had my house painted by my cousin. He is a painter.
- I had a new haircut done.
- He had had the final report finished by his coworker.
- She is going to get many photos revealed by a photo studio.