PASSIVE VOICE

I. Fill in the sentences with the correct form of the passive:

1 Please wait outside while your room ________(clean).

2 From next week, you ________ (expect) to arrive at work on time.
3 Too much money ________ (spend) last year on personal expenses.
4 Most of the pollution in city centers ________ (cause) by traffic jams.
5 Around £500,000 ________ (steal) from a bank in London this afternoon.
6 Next year over 2,000,000 mobile phones ________ (make) in China.
7 Kill Bill ________ (direct) by Quentin Tarantino.

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II. Complete the jokes by putting the verbs in brackets in the correct passive:

1. A teacher asked her class to write an essay about a football match. A minute later all
the students were writing except one boy. The teacher looked at his paper. It said,
“The game ………………….. (stop) in the first minute by rain.”
2. “Why …………..the tennis player ………….(give) a cigarette lighter at the end of
the competition?”
“I don’t know”
“Because he had lost all his matches”
3. “Mum, do all fairy tales begin with <Once upon a time>?”
“No, darling. Some start with : < Sorry I’m so late, darling, I ……………… (retain)
at the office>”

III. Complete these jokes by putting the verbs given in the correct perfect passive
form:

1. “Why are you putting a bandage over your pay cheque?”

“Because my salary ………just…………. (cut)”
2. A man went to a hospital for a new brain. He was given a choice between two
brains – an engineer’s for 20,000 $ or a politician’s for 90,000 $.
“Does that mean the politician’s brain is much better?”
“Not exactly, said the doctor. The politician’s brain ……never …….. (use).
3. “I ………………….. (ask) to get married hundreds of times.”
“Oh! Who by?”
“My parents”