Passive Voice Practice

Unit
43 Passive 2 (be done / been done / being done)

A Infinitive
active: (to) do/clean/see etc. Somebody will clean this room later.
passive: (to) be + done/cleaned/seen etc. This room will be cleaned later.

The situation is serious. Something must be done before it’s too late.
A mystery is something that can’t be explained.
The music was very loud and could be heard from a long way away.
A new supermarket is going to be built next year.
Please go away. I want to be left alone.
B Perfect infinitive
active: (to) have + done/cleaned/seen etc. Somebody should have cleaned the room .
passive: (to) have been + done/cleaned/seen etc. The room should have been cleaned.
I haven’t received the letter yet. It might have been sent to the wrong address.
If you had locked the car, it wouldn’t have been stolen.
There were some problems at first, but they seem to have been solved.
C Present perfect
active: have/has + done etc. The room looks nice. Somebody has cleaned it .
passive: have/has been + done etc. The room looks nice. It has been cleaned.
Have you heard? The trip has been cancelled.
Have you ever been bitten by a dog?
‘Are you going to the party?’ ‘No, I haven’t been invited.’
Past perfect
active: had + done etc. The room looked nice. Somebody had cleaned it .
passive: had been + done etc. The room looked nice. It had been cleaned.
The vegetables didn’t taste good. They had been cooked too long.
The car was three years old, but hadn’t been used very much.
D Present continuous
active: am/is/are + (do)ing Somebody is cleaning the room at the moment.
passive: am/is/are + being (done) The room is being cleaned at the moment.
There’s somebody walking behind us. I think we are being followed.
A new bridge is being built across the river. It will be finished next year.
Past continuous
active: was/were + (do)ing Somebody was cleaning the room when I arrived.
passive: was/were + being (done) The room was being cleaned when I arrived.
There was somebody walking behind us. I think we were being followed.
86 Passive 1, 3 ➜ Units 42, 44

Unit
Exercises 43
43.1 Complete these sentences. Use the following verbs in the passive:
--------- ------- --------
arrest carry cause --------
delay do keep ---------
forget ------- knock --------
know ---------
make --------
repair send
Sometimes you need have (might have, would have etc.).

1 The situation is serious. Something must be done before it’s too late.
2 I haven’t received the letter yet. It might have been sent to the wrong address.
3 A decision will not be made until the next meeting.
4 These documents are important. They should always be kept in a safe place.
5 This road is in bad condition. It should have been repaired a long time ago.
6 The injured man couldn’t walk and had to be carried .
7 If you hadn’t shouted at the policeman, you wouldn’t had been arrested .
8 I’m not sure what time I’ll arrive tomorrow. I may be delayed .
9 It’s not certain how the fire started. It might had been caused by an electrical fault.
10 A new school is being built. The old one is going to be knocked down.
11 The election is next Sunday. The full results will be known on Tuesday.
12 Last week they weren’t speaking to one another. Now they’re happy again. The problem seems to
have been forgotten .
43.2 Make sentences from the words in brackets. Sometimes the verb is active, sometimes passive.
1 There’s somebody behind us. (We / follow) We’re being followed.
2 This door is a different colour, isn’t it? (you / paint?) Have you painted it?
3 My bike has disappeared. (It / steal!) It has been stolen
4 My umbrella has disappeared. (Somebody / take) Somebody took it
5 A neighbour of mine disappeared six months ago.
(He / not / see / since then) He hasn't been seen since then
6 I wonder how Jessica is these days.
(I / not / see / for ages) I haven't seen her for ages
7 A friend of mine was stung by a bee recently.
(you / ever / sting / bee?) have you ever been stung by a bee?
8 The bridge was damaged recently.
(It / repair / at the moment) It is being repaired
9 Tom’s car was stolen recently.
(It / not / find / yet)
10 I went into the room and saw that the table and chairs were not in the same place.
(The furniture / move) The
43.3 Instead of using ‘somebody’, ‘they’ etc., write a passive sentence.

1 Somebody has cleaned the room. The room has been cleaned .
2 They are building a new road around the city.
A around the city.
3 They have built two new hotels near the airport.
Two near the airport.
4 When I last visited, they were building some new houses here.
When I last visited, some .
5 The meeting is now on 15 April. They have changed the date.
The date of meeting has been changed .
6 I didn’t know that somebody was recording our conversation.
I didn’t know that our was being recorded .
7 Is anyone doing anything about the problem?
anything been done about the problem?
8 The windows were very dirty. Nobody had cleaned them for ages.
The windows were very dirty. They hadn't been clean for ages .
➜ Additional exercises 22–24 (pages 314–15) 87

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43 Passive 2 (be done / been done / being done)

passive: (to) be + done/cleaned/seen etc. This room will be cleaned later.

86 Passive 1, 3 ➜ Units 42, 44

Sometimes you need have (might have, would have etc.).

43.3 Instead of using ‘somebody’, ‘they’ etc., write a passive sentence.

➜ Additional exercises 22–24 (pages 314–15) 87

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