Exercises about active and passive voice

Rewrite the sentences using the passive.

We don’t allow mobile phones in the classroom.
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A ten year old boy will sing the first song at the concert tonight.
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Who wrote that play?
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You must show your ticket at the door.
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Please don’t make too much noise or we will ask you to leave the room.
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They created that comedy show in the USA.
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They will broadcast the Edinburgh festival online this year.
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They should have awarded her an Oscar for her performance in that film.
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Will they postpone the concert?
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Quentin Tarantino is going to direct a new film.
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Complete newspaper reports with an appropriate passive form of the verbs in brackets.
An unknown twenty-two year old man……………(find) unconscious last night in an
abandoned farmhouse. Police……………..(search) the area looking for more clues. If anyone
has any information on this case, please call the police hotline.

Levels of pollution in Beijing are 15 times higher than they should be. This has caused the
government to take drastic measures.

Factories and building sites………….(force) to close, cars …………(order) off the roads and
children ………………(tell) not to go to school.

War and Peace, which…………….(write) by Leo Tolstoy, (read) in Russia over a four-day
period. More than 1,300 people in over 30 cities will be taking part in this marathon public
reading, where one volume………..(read) each day.