Change the active to th e passive! 1. Ayumi opens the door. The door is opened b y Ayu mi 2. Ayumi is opening th e door.

The door is b eing op ened by Ayumi 3. Ayumi has op ened the door. Th e doo r has been help ed by Ayu mi 4. Ayumi opened the door. The doo r was opened b y Ayumi 5. Ayumi was o pening the do or. th e door was being opened b y Ayumi 6. Ayumi had opened the door. The door had b een opened by Ayumi 7. Ayumi wi ll open the door. The door will be opened by Ayumu 8. Ayumi is going to open the door. The door is goi ng to be open ed by Ayu mi 9. Ayumi wi ll have o pened th e doo r. The do or wi ll have been opened b y Ayu mi 10. Is Ayu mi opening th e door? Is the doo r being opened by Ayumi? 11. Did Ayu mi op en the door? Was th e d oo r open ed by A yu mi ? 12. Has Ayumi opened th e door? Has the door b een opened by Ayumi ? 13. Shakespeare wrote that play. The Play was written by Shakespeare 14. Wai tresses and waiters serve customers. custo mers served by waiters and waitresses 15. The teacher is goi ng to expl ain th e lesson. th e l esson is going to be expl ained by the teacher 16. Shizuka h as suggested a n ew i dea. a n ew i dea has been suggested by Shi zu ka 17. Nohara wi ll i nvite An a to the party. Ana wil l be i nvited to the p arty by Nohara 18. Akagi is p reparin g that report. th e repo rt is being prepared b y Akagi 19. Two horses were pul ling the farmer s wagon. The Farmer s wagon was b ei ng pulled by two horse 20. Sayaka had returned th e b oo k to th e library. th e boo k had b een return ed to the li brary by Sayaka 21. By this ti me tomorro w, th e p resid en t wil l have made th e announcemen t. th e announ cement will have b een made by th e presi dent, by thi s time tomorrow 22. I didn t write that no te. Koya wrote i t. The no te wasn t written by me, i t was written by Koya. 23. Ri sa didn t make th at pi e. Did Mrs. Fukushima make it? The pi e wasn t made b y Risa. Was the cake made by Mrs. Fu kushima? 24. Do es Prof. Okuyama teach that course? I know th at Prof. Agasa d oesn t teach it. Was the course teach ed by Prof. Okuyama? I kn ow th ath P rof. Agasa do esn t teach i t. 25. Mrs. Hamasaki h asn t signed those papers yet. Has Mr. Hamasaki signed them yet? The papers hasn t been signed b y Mrs. Hamasaki yet. Has Mr. H amasaki been signes them yet? 26. Is Mr. Takagi pain ting you r house? I s your house bei ng pain ted by Mr. Takagi ?

Change the passi ve into active! 1. That sen ten ce was written by Shinchan. Shinch an wrote the sentence 2. Our papers are going to be collected by th e teach er. the teacher is goi ng to coll ect o ur papers. 3. Was the el ectri c light bulb invented b y Tho mas Edison? Did Thomas Edi son invent th e li ght bulb ? 4. The speed limit on Highway 5 isn t obeyed by most d rivers. Most drivers are not ob ey the speed l imit on Hi gh way 5. 5. Have you been informed of a pro po sed increase in ou r rent by the building sup erin tendent? Have the bui ldi ng sup erinten dent i nformed you o f a pro posed increase in o ur rent?

Change the active to p assive if possible! Some verbs are intransitive and cannot be chan ged. 1. A strange thi ng happ en ed yesterd ay. (no change) 2. Hyuga scored the winning go al . The winnin g goal was scored by Hyuga. 3. My cat di ed. (no ch an ge) 4. I agree with Dr. Ikeda s th eo ry. Dr. Ikeda s th eory was agreed by me. 5. Dr. Ikeda d eveloped that th eo ry. Th e th eo ry was d evel op ed by Dr. Iked a. 6. Tsubasa dropped th e cup. Th e cup was dro pp ed by Tsub asa 7. The cup fel l to the fl oor. (no change) 8. The assistant manager in tervi ewed me. I was intervi ewed b y the assistant manager. 9. It rain ed h ard yesterd ay. (no ch an ge) 10. A hurri cane d estroyed th e smal l fi shing vi llage. The smal l fi shing vil lage was destro yed by a hurrican e. 11. Dinosaurs existed mi lli ons of years ago. (no ch an ge) 12. A large vase stands in th e co rner of our fron t hallway. (no change) 13. The chil dren seemed happy when th ey went to the zoo. (no ch an ge) 14. After class, one of th e students al ways erases the chal kbo ard. The chalkbo ard was always erased b y one of the student after cl ass. 15. The solution to my probl em appeared to me i n a d ream. (no change) 16. Our pl an succeeded at l ast. (no changed) 17. She traveled to Fukuoka last year. (no ch an ge) 18. Lightning didn t cause the fire. The fi re wasn t caused b y lightning 19. A sp ecial co mmittee is going to settle the dispu te. Th e dispute is going to be settled by a special commi ttee 20. Did th e army surround the en emy? Was the en emy surround ed by th e army? 21. Wh at happened in cl ass yesterday? (no ch an ge) 22. The Persi an s invented wi nd mi lls around 1500 years ago. Wi ndmil ls were i nven ted the Persians

Find th e indirect object, and make i t the focu s of atten tion by u sing it as th e subject of a passive sentence! 1. Someone hand ed Ayaka a menu at the restaurant. Ayaka was h anded a menu at the restaurant by someone. 2. Tokyo University has awarded Tanaka a scholarship. Tanaka has been awarded a schol arship by To kyo Uni versity 3. Some co mp an y paid Fu kuyama three h und red dollars i n consul ti ng fees for a job h e did last week. Fukuyama was p ai d th ree hundred do llars in con sulti ng fees for a jo b h e did last week be some company. 4. Someone has given Mu sashi a pro motion at hi s jo b as a computer p rogrammer at Mi cro soft. Musashi h as been gi ven a p romoti on at his job as a co mputer programmer at Mi cro soft by someone. 5. They wi ll send you a bi ll at th e end of the mon th. yo u wi ll be sen t a bil l at th e end of the month b y them. 6. Someone will give th e starving p eople a week s supply o f ri ce as soon as the fo od suppli es arrive in the fami ne- stri cken area. th e starvi ng people will be given a week s supply of ri ce as soon as the fo od suppli es arrive i n the famin e-stricken area by someone.

U se either active or passive, in any appropriate tense! 1. The Amazon val ley is importan t to the ecology of the Earth. Forty percen t of the world oxygen (produce) was p roduced there. 2. Ri ght no w, Ryoko is in the ho spital. Sh e (treat) has treated fo r a bad burn on h er hand and arm. 3. The game (wi n, prob ably) probably won b y the other team to morrow. They re a lot better than we are. 4. There was a terrible accid en t on a busy downtown street yesterd ay. Dozen s of people (see) saw it, includi ng my friend, who (interview) was interviewed by the poli ce. 5. In my coun try, certain prices, such as th e price of medi cal supplies, (con trol) are con troll ed by th e governmen t. 6. Yesterd ay, a purse-snatch er (catch) was caugh t by a dog, while the thief (chase) was chased by the pol ice, he (ju mp) was jumped o ver a fence into someone s yard, wh ere he encountered a feroci ous dog. The dog (keep) keep s the thief from escapi ng. 7. The first fi sh (app ear) appeared on the Earth ab ou t 500 mi lli on years ago. Up to now, more than 20,00 0 kinds of fi sh (n ame) was n amed and (descri be) described by scien tists. New speci es (discover) discover every year, so th e total in creases con tinu al ly. 8. Frostbi te may occu r when the ski n (expo se) expose to extreme cold. It most frequently (affect) affect the ski n of th e ch eeks, chin, ears, fi ngers, no se, an d to es. 9. In 1877, a n etwork of l ines (discover) were discovered on th e su rface of Mars by an Italian astronomer, Giovanni Schi ap arelli. The astronomer (cal l) called th ese lines channels , but wh en the Itali an word (translate) translated in to Engl ish, it b ecame canals . As a result, so me people thought the lin es were waterways that (b uil d) being built by some unknown creatures. We know now th at the li nes are not real ly can als. Canals ( exist, not) doesn t exist on Mars. 10. Carl Gauss (recogni ze) was recognizing as a mathematical genius when h e was ten. On e day a pro fessor gave hi m an arithmeti c problem. Carl (ask) was asked to add up all the numb ers from 1 to 100 (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5, etc). It (take) was taken him only ei ght seconds to solve the probl em. C arl coul d d o it quickly because h e (know) knew that each pair of numb ers 1 plus 100, 2 plus 99, 3 pl us 98, an d so on to 50 plus 51 eq ualed 101. So he (mul ti ply) multipl ied 50 ti mes 101 an d ( come) came up with the answer: 5, 050. 11. Captain Cook, a Bri tish navigator, was th e first European to reach Australi an s east coast. While his shi p was lying off Australia, hi s sailors (bring) brought a strange ani mal on bo ard. C ook wanted to know the n ame of this unu sual creature, so he (send) sen t hi s men ash ore to ask the n ati ve inhabitants. Wh en the native (ask) asked in i mp romptu sign l angu age to name the ani mal, they said , Kangaro o . The sailors, of course, b el ieved kangaroo was the animal s n ame. Years l ater, the truth (discover) was discovered. Kangaro o means What di d you say? Bu t tod ay, the ani mal (cal l, sti ll) still calls a kangaroo in English.

Compl ete the sentences with approp riate prepo sition s! 1. Our high school soccer team was very exci ted be qualified f or going to the nation al final s. 2. I m not acqu ai nted b e acqu ainted with that man. Do you know him? 3. Hamasaki Ayu mi is known be known for h er beauty and voi ce. 4. A person wh o is addi cted be addicted to dru gs needs profession al medi cal help. 5. Mi saki i s marri ed be married to Kagami. 6. Coul d I pl ease h ave the di ction ary when you are finished be fini shes with it? 7. Aren t you read y yet? We have to b e at th e ferry do ck at 8:00. I l l never make i t. I m sti ll dressed b e dressed in my pajamas. 8. My car i s equipped b e equipp ed with ai r conditio ni ng and a sun roof. 9. The school chi ldren were expo sed be exposed to the measl es b y a student who had them. 10. Gajah Mad a was committed be committed to non vi olence. He beli eved in i t al l of his li fe. 11. The large tabl e was co vered b e covered with every kind o f food yo u co uld imagine. 12. Shishio turned off the TV because sh e was tired be tired f rom l istening to the n ews. 13. The choi ces in th at restauran t are l imited be limi ted with su shi and ramen. 14. The department sto re was fil led be filled with toys for th e hol iday sal e. 15. The store was crowded be crowded with l ast-min ute shoppers on the eve of th e h ol iday. 16. Your leg b on e is connected b e connected to yo ur hip bone. 17. I think you are invol ved be involved in too many activiti es. 18. Thei r apartment i s al ways messy. It s cl uttered be cluttered with newsp ap ers, boo ks, cloth es, an d dirty dishes. 19. Agasa s b al d h ead is protected b e protected f rom the ho t sun when he s wearing his hat.