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    The document provides 25 sentences in the active voice and asks to change them to the passive voice. It gives examples of changing different types of sentences such as those with transitive and intransitive verbs, sentences with multiple clauses, and sentences involving various tenses. The goal is to demonstrate how to restructure sentences from the active to the passive voice.

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    The document provides 25 sentences in the active voice and asks to change them to the passive voice. It gives examples of changing different types of sentences such as those with transitive and intransitive verbs, sentences with multiple clauses, and sentences involving various tenses. The goal is to demonstrate how to restructure sentences from the active to the passive voice.

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    Passives 1+2

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    Lara Inês Salgado Freitas
    The document provides 25 sentences in the active voice and asks to change them to the passive voice. It gives examples of changing different types of sentences such as those with transitive and intransitive verbs, sentences with multiple clauses, and sentences involving various tenses. The goal is to demonstrate how to restructure sentences from the active to the passive voice.

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    Change these sentences from active to passive:

    1. People speak Portuguese in Brazil.

    2. The Government is planning a new road near my house.

    3. My grandfather built this house in 1943.

    4. Picasso was painting Guernica at that time.

    5. The cleaner has cleaned the office.

    6. He had written three books before 1867.

    7. John will tell you later.

    8. By this time tomorrow we will have signed the deal.

    9. Somebody should do the work.

    10. The traffic might have delayed Jimmy.

    11. Everybody loves Mr Brown.

    12. They are building a new stadium near the station.

    13. The wolf ate the princess.

    14. At six o’clock someone was telling a story.

    15. Somebody has drunk all the milk!

    16. I had cleaned all the windows before the storm.

    17. A workman will repair the computer tomorrow.


    18. By next year the students will have studied the passive.

    19. James might cook dinner.

    20. Somebody must have taken my wallet.

    1. One of the cleaners has found my purse.

    2. The robber hit him on the head with a hammer.

    3. The government has built a new road in this area.

    4. The assistant handed me a note.

    5. We elected John class representative.

    6. Someone has taken my wallet.

    7. Many people use bicycles as a means of transport.

    8. They advised me to get a visa.

    9. They were rebuilding the old road when I drove by.

    10. The local council opened a new shopping centre.

    11. They haven’t decided anything yet.

    12. The crowd was slowly filling the new stadium.

    13. Someone has suggested that the shop should close.

    14. Dad used a knife to open the window.


    15. The waitress will bring you your drinks in a minute

    16. Nobody ever heard anything of John again.

    17. People asked me the way three times

    18. Lots of people had parked their cars on the pavement.

    19. The helpers have not packed the boxes yet.

    20. They are still preparing the food.

    21. They will launch the new ship next week.

    22. Christopher Wren built the church in the 17th century.

    23. Beckham scored the goal in the 35th minute.

    24. We serve all main courses with vegetables and salad.

    25. Someone pushed Harry over the railing

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