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Active to Passive Voice Exercises

This document contains a test paper with questions to transform sentences between active and passive voice, impersonal and personal passive voice, and using causative have structures. There are 3 sections - the first asks to change sentences between active and passive voice, the second between impersonal and personal passive voice, and the third uses causative have structures to rewrite sentences. The test paper provides examples for practice and assessment of skills in rewriting sentences with different grammatical transformations.

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Active to Passive Voice Exercises

This document contains a test paper with questions to transform sentences between active and passive voice, impersonal and personal passive voice, and using causative have structures. There are 3 sections - the first asks to change sentences between active and passive voice, the second between impersonal and personal passive voice, and the third uses causative have structures to rewrite sentences. The test paper provides examples for practice and assessment of skills in rewriting sentences with different grammatical transformations.

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TEST PAPER

1. Transform the sentences from Active Voice to Passive Voice


a) Peter bought this house. ________________________________________________________________
b) Mary will make the coffee. _____________________________________________________________
c) My friends are repairing the car. _________________________________________________________
d) Most students speak English in this class. __________________________________________________
e) A policeman had helped her. ____________________________________________________________
f) She will have finished her work by tonight. ________________________________________________
g) They were watching the movie all afternoon yesterday. _______________________________________
h) They are going to make this computer in the USA. __________________________________________
i) They have cancelled the meeting. ________________________________________________________
j) I must send the package to Austria by train. ________________________________________________

2. Transform the following sentences from Active to Passive using the Impersonal and Personal:
a) People think that the bank robbers have left the country.
It _____________________________________________________________________________________
The bank robbers ________________________________________________________________________
b) They believe that Shakespeare was the greatest writer of all time.
It _____________________________________________________________________________________
Shakespeare ____________________________________________________________________________
c) People know that Michael Schumacher is an excellent racing driver.
It _____________________________________________________________________________________
Michael Schumacher _____________________________________________________________________
d) They think that a reporter was interviewing him when the fire started.
It _____________________________________________________________________________________
A reporter______________________________________________________________________________
e) They say that Julia Roberts is one of the richest female stars in the world.
It _____________________________________________________________________________________
Julia Roberts____________________________________________________________________________
f) People say that she has put on weight.
It _____________________________________________________________________________________
She____________________________________________________________________________________
g) They say the problem of pollution is getting more serious.
It _____________________________________________________________________________________
The problem of pollution __________________________________________________________________
h) People say that the new spy film is really good.
It _____________________________________________________________________________________
The new spy film ________________________________________________________________________
i) They think that dinosaurs lived on Earth 65 million years ago.
It _____________________________________________________________________________________
Dinosaurs ______________________________________________________________________________

3. Transform the sentences using Causative have structures:


1. She is getting someone to cut her hair.
She …
2. A decorator will paint our kitchen next week.
We …
3. Lucy’s house must be painted.
Lucy …
4. They washed my car last Saturday.
I…
5. They have installed their central heating.
They …
6. I have lost my key; they have to make another key.
I…
7. You should go to the doctor’s to test your eyes.
You …
8. They serviced his car yesterday.
He …
9. She has got someone to repair the puncture.
She...
10. They are going to get someone to paint their house.
They …

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