FROM ACTIVE TO PASSIVE VOICE

1) The British eat over thirty million hamburgers each year.

2) He said The bad weather had spoiled his holiday plans.

3) The children picked the strawberries.

4) She saw them go out.

5) That company is converting the old bank into a supermarket.

6) They told him not to say anything to her.

7) The nurses take very good care of the patients.

8) The police have just arrested the man who broke into our house.

9) What did he tell you?

10) Oxfam will hold a fashion show next week.

11) She thinks they are holding the next World Cup in France.

12) The officers took the suspect in for questioning.

13) Does the school provide accommodation for all new teachers?

14) Someone is cleaning the windows.

15) People spend a lot of money on food.

16) Is Sue washing the car?

17) They are saying Grandfather is going to tell the children a story.

18) They will open the new sports centre soon.

19) They made him confess to the robbery.

20) Liz showed me some holiday pictures.

21) They heard him calling for help.

22) The teacher will mark the essays.

23) People make jam from fruit.

24) They sent us to the doctor.

25) Clive hasnt cut the grass yet.

26) They may not repair the car next week.

27) Her mother woke her up at 7 oclock.

28) The milkman brings the milk to my door but the postman leaves the letters in the hall.

29) In future, perhaps, they won't bring letters to the houses, and we shall have to
collect them from the Post Office.

30) People steal things from supermarkets every day; someone stole twenty bottles of
whisky from this one last week.

31) Normally men sweep this street every day, but nobody swept it last week.

32) My sister thinks the postman clears this box three times a day. He last cleared it at

2.30.

33) Someone turned on a light in the hall and opened the door.

34) Women clean this office in the evening after the staffs have left; they clean the
upstairs offices between seven and eight in the morning.

35) We never saw him in the dining-room. A maid took all his meals up to him.

36) Someone left this purse in a classroom yesterday; the cleaner found it.

37) We build well over 1,000 new houses a year. Last year we built 1,500.

38) We serve hot meals till 10.30, and guests can order coffee and sandwiches up to

11.30.

39) Passengers leave all sorts of things in buses. The conductors collect them and send
them to the Lost Property Office.

40) An ambulance took the sick man to hospital.

41) We kill and injure people on the roads every day. Can't we do something about this?

42) Dogs guard the warehouse. The other day a thief tried to get in and a dog saw him
and chased him.

43) Did they catch the thief?

44) Will The King inaugurate the new bridge?

45) Do they make cars in Korea?

46) Do the hounds kill the fox?

47) Did the bull kill the matador?

48) I have to study maths tomorrow

49) Have the police found the body?

50) Why has the government banned the film?

51) When did they hijack the plane?

52) How did your host family treat you?

53) What caused the accident?

54) Has anyone cleaned the oven yet?

55) Is a doctor going to examine you?

56) Why did no one inform me of the change of plan?

57) Tom Smith wrote the book and Brown and Co. published it.

58) We shall have to keep the car in the garage.

59) I'm afraid we have sold all our copies but we have ordered more.

60) We will prosecute trespassers.

61) Someone stole my car and abandoned it fifteen miles away. He had removed the
radio but done no other damage.

62) You must keep dogs on leads in the gardens.

63) They haven't stamped the letter.

64) They didn't pay me for the work; they expected me to do it for nothing.

65) He escaped when they were moving him from one prison to another.

66) She didn't introduce me to her mother.

67) A frightful crash woke me up at 4 a.m.

68) When they have widened this street the roar of the traffic will keep residents
awake all night.

69) They threw away the rubbish. A Japanese firm makes these television sets.

70) An earthquake destroyed the town.

71) They searched his house and found a number of stolen articles.

72) Nobody has used this room for ages.

73) They took him for a Frenchman, his French was so good.

74) You should have taken those books back to the library.

75) They brought the children up in Italy.

76) They have taken down the For Sale notice, so I suppose they have sold the house.

77) Someone broke into his house and stole a lot of his things.

78) We have warned you.

79) A lorry knocked him down.

80) They returned my keys to me; someone had picked them up in the street.

81) We had to give the books back; they did not allow us to take them home.

82) You shouldn't leave these documents on the desk. You should lock them up.

83) They handed round coffee and biscuits.

84) They have tried other people's schemes. Why have they never tried my scheme?

85) They assume that the match will be held on 20th.

86) Someone is telling Mark what to do now.

87) They think that elephants live a hundred years.

88) They will allow him to leave earlier this morning.

89) They have made me cook breakfast.

90) I saw John singing loudly the other morning.

91) She must look for the ball.

92) Peter will buy the house for his sister Josephine

93) Mary has already brought the wine.

94) She had finished her work by 6 oclock.

95) He thought they took the car into the garage this morning.

96) Who cooked the cakes?

97) Who will write the book?

98) They knew they had been followed everywhere they went.

99) John told me that his brother was in love with Marta

100) Nobody is going to confess the truth to the judge