Passive Voice Exercises 4.


Turn the following active constructions into passive ones omitting all mention of the agent of the action:

  1. No one has made any mistakes.
  2. What do you call it?
  3. They asked us to stay a little longer.
  4. One expects him to obey the regulations.
  5. People have made great progress in physics.
  6. They are discussing the possibility of new negotiations.
  7. Everybody thought that Jackie was clever but LAZY!
  8. People use coal for making artificial materials.
  9. People say it is difficult.
  10. What books are people reading this year?
  11. They elected him president.
  12. They are rehearsing a new play.
  13. Someone found the children in the morning.
  14. Nobody has ever treated me with such kindness.
  15. He knew that they had sent the invitations out two weeks earlier.
  16. They can arrange all things.
  17. People expect you to meet the manager.
  18. Are they sending for you?
KEY
  1. have been made
  2. is ...... called
  3. were asked
  4. is excepted
  5. has been made
  6. is being discussed
  7. was thought to be
  8. is used
  9. It is said to be difficult
  10. are being read
  11. was elected
  12. is being rehearsed
  13. were found
  14. have never been treated
  15. had been sent
  16. can be arranged
  17. are expected
  18. are ..... being sent