Cau bi dong

PASSIVE VOICE

Change into passive voice:
1. The librarian said that they were starting a new system because people were not returning books.
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2. Someone will serve refreshments.
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3. Members may keep books for three weeks. After that they must return them.
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4. Someone has already told him to report for duty at six.
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5. No one can do anything unless someone gives us more information.
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6. People are spending far more momey on food now than they spent ten years ago.
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7. They will say nothing more about the matter if someone returns the stolen gun.
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8. It is high time someone told him to stop behaving like a child.
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9. A thief stole my dog and brought him back only when I offered $20 reward for him.
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10. The judge gave him two weeks in which to pay the fine.
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11. They made these artificial flowers of silk.
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12. What did he write it with?
He wrote it with a matchstick dipped in blood.
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13. Did the idea interest you?
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14. The lawyer gave him the details of his uncle’s will.
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15. Beavers make these dams.
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16. They used to start these engines by hand. Now they start them by electricity.
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17. Students are doing a lot of the work.
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18. The Prime Ministerwas to have opened the dry dock.
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19. The closure of the workshops will make a lot of men redundant.
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20. Anyone with the smallest intelligence could understand these instructions.
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21. We will not admit children under sixteen.
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22. Boys of sixteen to eighteen are to man this training ship.
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23. The howling of wolves kept him awake all night.
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24. They suggested making these tests easier.
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25. Children could have done all these damage.
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26. They invited Jack but they didn’t invite Tom.
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27. Has someone posted my parcel?
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28. Why did no one inform me of the change of plan?
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29. Tom Smith wrote the book and Brown and Co published it.
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30. We shall have to tow the car to the garage.
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31. Someone stole my car and abandoned it fifteen miles away. He had removed the radio but done no other damage.
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32. They didn’t pay me for the work; they expected me to do it for nothing.
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33. He escaped when they were moving him from one prison to another.
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34. When they have widened this street, the roar of the traffic will keep residents awake all night.
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35. We ask tenents not to play their radios loudly after midnight.
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36. We cannot exchange articles which customers have bought during the sale.
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37. We have to pick the fruit very early in the morning; otherwise we can’t get it to the market in time.
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38. You need not type those letters.
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39. This used to be number 13, but now I see that someone has crossed out ‘13’ and written’12A’ underneath.
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40. You mustn’t move this man; he is too ill. You have to leave him here.
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41. They searched his house and found a number of stolen articles.
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42. Nobody has used this room for ages.
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