Exercise 1
Change the following sentences into the passive voice.
The boy asked a difficult question.
She writes very good novels.
The terrorist shot the policemen
The police caught the thief.
I didn´t paint that picture
Farmers grow soy in Argentina.
Lennon and McCartney wrote the song Yesterday.
El Greco painted The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.
Engineers design bridges.
The airline sent our passage to Australia by mistake.
You don’t find penguins at the North Pole.
Columbus didn’t discover America in 1491.
They draw some paintings.
My uncle can ride a bicycle quite well.
The child broke all the plates in the cupboard.
jShe didn’t find the book.
Exercise 2
Put these questions into the passive.
a) When did Pasteur discover Penicillin?
b) How do people make sushi?
c) Where do people speak Mandarin?
d) Did Spain win the last basketball Olympics?
e) Do people speak English in Hawaii?
f) Who directed the film Princesas?
Exercise 3.
Complete using a passive tense.
- How many newspapers(print) in Britain every day?
- Who(this play / write) by?
- German(speak) in Germany, Austria, and part of Switzerland.
- The royal wedding(watch) by millions of people in 2011.
- Nowadays, a lot of computers(make) in Korea.
- The Harry Potter films(not direct) by Steven Spielberg.
- How much(paper / recycle) in Poland each year?
- In the UK, alcohol(not sell)to anyone under 18. It's against the law.
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