BTAP BI ĐỘNG TỔNG HỢP

PASSIVE VOICE
I. Change the active into the passive with the simple present.
1. Does Jackson give that lecture?
- Is
2. The children often read stories in the evening.
- Stories
3. People speak Spanish in many countries.
- Spanish
4. They grow rice in the north.
- Rice
5. We don`t raise cows on our farm.
- Cows
6. Japan makes a lot of cars.
- Cars
II Change the active into the passive with the simple past
1. I didn`t write that letter.
- That letter
2. Shakespeare wrote that play.
- That play
3. Alice didn`t make that cake.
- That cake
4. A man asked me several difficult questions at the interview.
- I
5. The club bought him 2 years ago for a fee of $20 000.
- He
III. Change the active into the passive with present progressive
1.She is using the computer at the moment.
- The computer
2. They are opening a new ring road round the city.
- A new ring road
3. They are building some new houses down the street.
- Some new houses
4. Alex is preparing that report.
- That report
5. Is Mrs. Brown painting your house?
- Is your house
6. They are building a market near the hospital.
- A market
IV. Change the active into the passive with the past progressive.
1.When we came, they were repairing the roof of the house.
- When we came, the roof
2. Tom was writing two poems.

3.She was wearing her new T-shirt when I met her yesterday.

4. Ann was writing a letter.

5. The chief engineer was instructing all the workers of the plan.

V. Change the active into the passive with present and past perfect.
1.They have moved nothing in your room.
- Nothing
2.Has Tom finished the work?

3. She has not changed the flowers.
- The flowers
4. They have prepared tables for lunch.
-Tables
5. Someone had stolen his car.
- His car
6. Someone had broken the windows.
- The windows
7.Have they changed the window of the laboratory?

VI. Change the active into the passive with the simple future.
1. Bill will invite Ann to the party.
- Ann
2. They will send you the money at the end of the month.
- You
3.That company will publish a textbook next year.
- A textbook
4. They will probably send him back to Britain.
- He
5. I’ll meet her at the airport.
- She
VII. Change the active into the passive with the near future.
The teacher is going to tell a story.

Is she going to write a poem?

They are going to build a supermarket next year.
- A supermarket
4. The teacher is going to explain the lesson.
- The lesson
5. They are going to finish a new school in the village next year.
- A new school
6. Who is going to feed the babies?
- By whom
EXERCISES
I. Turn these sentences into passive voice:
1. He made us work late at night.
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2. They are preparing dinner in another room.
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3. Lenin gave each of them two exercise books.
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4. Nobody showed them how to do.
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5. The 20th century has given us a lot of advantages.
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6. You will have to make great efforts in studying.
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7. We are going to translate HAMLET into our native language.
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8. Your sister must pay attention to her teacher’s advice.
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9. In his chapter, we are going to give him an intelligent test.
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10. She isn’t going to pick these roses for the party.
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11. Someone has taken away all of my English books.
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12. People are talking about him everywhere.
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13. Noone can answer that question .
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14. The teacher made us do a lot of exercises.
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16. Are you going to take an English course during the summer?
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18. We saw her cross the intersections.
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20. The Irish had to