PASSIVE VOICE

1.- PASSIVE OF THAT-CLAUSES:

a) People say that teachers are bad.

b) People thought that Romans were a powerful race.

c) People think that prices will rise.

d) People believed that Byron lived on vinegar and potatoes.

e) People expect that you will tell the truth.

f) They considered that he worked hard.

2.- PASSIVE VOICED MIXED. Write two ways when possible:

a) People thought that he was in Paris.

b) Everybody knows him well.

c) You should open the wine three hours before you use it.

d) The pólice offered a reward to the citizens.

e) People say that this new drug will be the solution.

f) Previous climbers had cut steps in the ice.

g) People know that you made all this damage.

h) They showed us their treasure.

i) We understood everything perfectly.

j) People were waiting for the president.

k) Did you pay for the meal?

l) Everybody was listening to the song with interest.

m) Where have you found it?

n) You could avoid this problem.

o) He told me angrily to leave.

p) Peter is going to send Susan a present.

q) People expect that the Prime Minister will travel to France.

r) His unexpected death saddened us.

s) Somebody organised the rock concert badly.

t) Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?

u) What did he tell you?

w) Farmers are using pigs to find truffles.

x) Susan has been looking after my house.

y) My students didn´t do the exercises.

z) People thought that he went to England.

aa) She told me her secret.

bb) They must switch on the lights.

cc) We’ve sold our copies but we have ordered more.

dd) They said that he was quite intelligent.

ee) The rain pulled down the bridge.

ff) She’ll give me that tomorrow.

gg) We can’t go out now because we are waiting for Peter.

hh) An ambulance has taken the man to hospital.

ii) Who painted this picture?

jj) Somebody will help you with all these books.

kk) They may lose the boxes.

ll) A machine could do this easily

mm) People Know that they are lovers.

nn) Some of the workers have organized an unofficial strike.

oo) The said that you did it.

pp)Who wrote “The Grat Gatsby”?

qq) Where did you buy tahta present?

rr) They are laughing at him.