Grammar practice: Passive Voice

PASSIVE VOICE
Last lesson we ……………………….. (tell) about different unusual animals.
An interesting program …………………….. (show) on TV yesterday.
Coffee ………………… (just/make), you can have a cup if you like.
Patients ………….. (treat) in hospitals.
My passport is not ready yet. It …………………. (make) at the moment.
The walls of the house ………………… (just/paint).
The newspaper ………………………….. (bring) yesterday.
While the potatoes ……………………… (peel) my parents arrived.
Tomorrow all the compositions ………………………. (check).
The car …………………… (already/repair), now we can use it.
The weather forecast …………………… (broadcast) at the moment.
While the ceiling …… (paint) the bucket with the paint …….. (upset опрокидывать).
The order ………………… (not/make) yet.
Your dress ……(make) at the moment and I think that tomorrow it ………… (finish).
My mother is busy at the moment. She cannot come. My baby brother ………(feed).
When we got home, we realized that our house ……………………. (burgle).
America ……………………….. by Christopher Columbus. (discover)
Newspapers in some countries ……………… in kiosks as well as shops. (sell)
At this very moment the suspect …………………… by the police. (interview)
When I entered the room, the walls …………………….. (still/paint)
England ……………………by France in yesterday’s rugby international. (beat)
What language ………………… in Estonia? – Estonian. (speak)
Several trees ………………… by lightning in the last night’s storm. (strike)
The news ………………….. by the time we got there. (already/announce)
Milk should ………………………… in the refrigerator or it will go off. (keep)
Turn the following sentences into the Passive Voice. No agents with “by” are required here.
You must write a business letter on one side of the paper only.
Everyone must leave their hats and coats in the cloakroom.
They require visitors not to feed the animals.
They require visitors not to make much noise.
No one has opened this gate for the last fifty years.
They fought a big battle at the Kulikovo Pole six hundred years ago.
People will forget this film in a few days.
No one has ever beaten Cyril at tennis.
They play basketball in every school.
They play basketball and volleyball in every school.
They will meet us at the station.
They teach French and English at our school.
They told me to come early.
They will do this work very quickly.
They invited Helen and Ann to the party.
They asked Nina to come a little later.
They punished me for something I didn’t do.
They make progress every day in the world of science.
Somebody can easily mend this doorlock.
Change the following sentences into the Passive Voice. Put the adverbs of manner immediately in front of the past participle it qualifies as shown in the example.
E x a m p l e: I cooked the fish very well.
The fish was very well cooked.
I burnt my finger badly.
They feel the shortage of fresh water in this country still very keenly (сильно).
You wrote your last homework very badly.
Someone has cooked dinner excellently.
Nobody has answered my question properly.
They had exploited the natural resources of the country barbarously (варварски) before it became independent.
People admire Picasso’s pictures very much.
They formerly used the Tower of London as a prison.
He has written the essay skillfully.
She dresses her children lightly but warmly.
They praised the new TV show highly.
They will appreciate your reply highly.
They met our request immediately.
They raised oil prices drastically.
They established friendly relations quickly.
They built the house badly.
He wrote the poem beautifully.
Change the following sentences into the passive Voice. Put the adverbs of manner immediately in front of the past participle it qualifies. Don’t leave out the particle which will be put at the end of the sentence.
E x a m p l e: They will look after the child well.
The child will be well looked after.
We must look into this matter.
People speak well of my boyfriend Cyril.
Someone reads to the old lady every evening.
We must fight for peace.
You must let the dog out.
Nobody had lived in that cottage for years.
She will look after the little girl well.
A car has run over their dog.
People will laugh at you if you wear these jeans.
They carried the piano into the house.
People ought not to speak about such things in public.
Somebody left the light on all night.
They will lock the cottage up for the summer.
Somebody has spilt milk all over the tablecloth.
Nobody has ever spoken to me like that before.
People talked about this film all over the town.
When we go camping we must not throw away empty bottles and tins.
We ate up all the biscuits yesterday.
People were carrying the chairs out into the garden.
20.This is a good idea, but one cannot carry it out in practice