13 - ] Grammar Practice
Upper Intermediate
7 -] The Active & Passive Forms
1
- ] Rewrite the sentences , putting verbs into the passive . Make any other
necessary changes
Examples
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. They should have given us this information ages ago .
This
information should have been given to us ages ago .
2
. Do you want someone to wake you up in the morning ?
Do
you want to be woken up in the morning ?
3
. I don’t like someone telling me what to do ?
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. The windows are really dirty : no one’s cleaned them for weeks .
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. After the company made him redundant , he became very depressed .
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. I would like them to have given me the chance to explain my point of
view , but they weren’t interested .
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. I’m hoping they will choose me for the college football team .
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. People believe that many more people will die of skin cancer over the
next ten years .
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. If it hadn’t rained so much , we would have finished the job on time .
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10
. We can’t take the car : the people at the garage are repairing it .
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2
- Rewrite the following , putting the underlined verbs into the passive and
making any other changes that are necessary . Use by + agent where
appropriate
1
. The company is sorry to announce that the situation has forced it to
introduce a range of cost-cutting measures as from the beginning of the new
year .
Unfortunately
, we can no longer provide free tea and coffee . Someone is going to
install new coin-operated drinks machines in every department and you can purchase
a wide range of drinks from these . We will also stop overtime
payments after the end of this month and we will expect all members of
staff to complete their duties within their contract hours . You must no longer
make personal calls from office phones and we request you to use
the pay phone in the basement for this purpose .
2
. Fire almost completely destroyed the hotel last night . By the time someone called
the fire brigade , the hotel was already blazing . Ambulances took fifteen
people to hospital suffering from severe burns . They say that seven of
them are in serious condition . People think that a discarded cigarette started
the fire .
Example
The
hotel was almost completely destroyed by fire last night . By the time the fire
brigade was / were called , the hotel was already blazing .
3
. Jamila is talking to her friend Gamal about her holiday .
G
: So , how was the holiday ?
J
: Oh ,it was fantastic . They organized everything so well . As soon as
we arrived at the airport ,our courier met us and took us to the
hotel . Someone had cleaned all the rooms beautifully and put
fresh flowers on the tables .
G
: Oh ,how lovely . And what about the food ?
J
: It was excellent . They freshly prepared it all in the hotel and they
even made the bread in te hotel kitchen . They served the bread
rolls hot every morning with breakfast .
G
: Mm , it does sound good . I must say , I’d like someone to cook my
meals for me for a couple of weeks . And what about the surrounding area ? Was
that nice ?
J
: Oh beautiful . There were trips every day and they showed us all the local
sights . There was so much history to see . You’d love it there , honestly .
4
. Last month the council put forward a plan to make the seafront
traffic-free . Many of the shops and restaurant owners support the plan
as they believe that a more pleasant environment will improve their
trade . However , the hotel owners are less enthusiastic and say that the
traffic restriction will make access to their car parks very difficult .
There have also been protests from some local residents who complain that the
closure of the seafront road will make their journeys around the town
much longer .
3
. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense and form . Some of the verbs
should be in the passive and some in the active . Write the answers in the
spaces provided below the text .
More
cars and lorries 1-------------(drive) on our roads every year and , sadly, as
a result of this , more and more wild animals 2 -------------(kill) by vehicles
. Roads often 3 ------------(cross) the routes that 4 --------------(take) by
animals when they are migrating , breeding or feeding .
Every spring , many thousands of toads 5
-----------------(kill) as they 6 -------------(make) their way to the
traditional breeding ponds . Allover the world , animals are victims of the
road and their dead remains can 7 --------------(often see) lying on the
roadside . Many badgers and hedgehogs 8 --------------(hit) by cars at night as
they ------------(move around) in search of food . Rabbits sometimes seem to
10------------------(hypnotize) by the headlights of cars and 11
-------------------(not move ) quickly out of the way . Birds 12
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(sometimes
hit) too as they 13 ---------------(fly) low over roads . -----------------(can anything do) to protect
these animals from dangers of the road ? Well , in 1969 , a toad tunnel
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(build)
in Switzerland and was a great success . Since then ,other tunnels 16 -------------------
(construct)
elsewhere in Europe , not just for toads but for badgers and salamanders too .
In Florida , where the rare Florida panther 17 ------------------(live) ,
panther tunnels
18 ------------------(build) under the highway
and fencing 19 --------------------(put up) beside the highway to guide the
animals safely into these underpasses . Road signs warning drivers to
20----------------(look out) for particular animals 21 -----------------( often
see) in the US and it is to 22--------------------(hope) that they 23
-------------(become) a more common sight on the roads of Europe .
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