Passive Voice exercises 1.




Turn the following active constructions into passive:

  1. They can reach the village by night.
  2. You must take the medicine three times a day.
  3. People may borrow books from the library for a fortnight.
  4. One cannot describe it.
  5. You should have checked those exercises.
  6. They can't have noticed us.
  7. I wish they could have done it.
  8. They have eaten everything.
  9. They haven't put the rules into words.
  10. Have they said anything?
  11. Someone should tell them never to go there again.
  12. They gave my little brother a red ball.
  13. They requested the boys to leave to meeting.
  14. Someone broke into their house.
  15. You must work for success!
  16. Someone has stolen my collection of Dutch stamps.
  17. Don't let the other boys see your work!
  18. Children must obey their parents.
  19. Her uncle brought her up and she got her education in London.
  20. They oughtn't to have put the match off.
KEY:
  1. can be reached
  2. must be taken
  3. may be borrowed
  4. cannot be described
  5. should have been checked
  6. can't have been noticed
  7. could have been done
  8. has been eaten
  9. haven't been put
  10. has .... been said
  11. should be told
  12. was given
  13. were requested
  14. was broken into
  15. must be worked for
  16. has been stolen
  17. don't let ..... be seen
  18. must be obeyed
  19. was brought up by her uncle and educated in London
  20. oughtn't to have been put off