Passive voice
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Exercise 1

Complete the sentences in the passive voice with the verbs in brackets.

Ten houses ___ in our neighbourhood last year. (build)
Ten houses were built in our neighbourhood last year.

New medicines ___ in the near future. (discover)
New medicines will be discovered in the near future.

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In this street letters by the postman at 8 every day. (deliver)

This bag on the bus yesterday night. (find)

I'm afraid the dress in hot water. (cannot wash)

your motorbike yet? I'd like to borrow it. (repair)

The message tomorrow, I promise. (send)

These offices now. Be careful, the floors are wet. (clean)

This report in time if you didn't help me. Thank you very much. (not finish)

Why the TV ? Everyone has gone to bed. (turn on)

This building needs renovating. It since the 1960's. (not reconstruct)

Madam, you cannot take your bag into the gallery. All bags in the cloakroom. (must leave)

The engine just when the manager saw it. And he was satisfied with it. (test)

I'm sorry, sir. The last umbrellas in the morning. (sell)

Where have you been so long? You to arrive so late if you worked for me. (not allow)

Please, be patient. The plan in two days. (announce)

All the rooms at the moment. It will take us two or three days. (paint)

What were we doing at 11 o'clock? - We by a reporter. (interview)

After the window pane someone smashed the window again. (replace)

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Passive voice exercises, printable worksheets and grammar rules with examples.

For pre-intermediate - advanced students of English as a second language.

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