EXERCISE II : Turn into the passive voice. 1/ He is running his own restaurant. - ______________________________________________________ 2/ The secretary opens the mails every morning. - ______________________________________________________ 3/ The teacher doesn’t allow me to take the seat by the window. - ______________________________________________________ 4/ Tom’s absence worried his mother. - ______________________________________________________ 5/ They are building a new school in this town. - ______________________________________________________ 6/ You should finish the report right now. - ______________________________________________________ 7/ We shall discuss the matter in the afternoon. - ______________________________________________________ 8/ Are you going to post this letter ? - ______________________________________________________ 9/ He has to pay the bills before the fifth of the month. - ______________________________________________________ 10/ No one has opened that box for the past hundred years. - ______________________________________________________ 11/ The boy screamed while the dentist was pulling out one of his teeth. - ______________________________________________________ 12/ The enemy used to attack the bay. - ______________________________________________________ 13/ The fire has destroyed many houses. - ______________________________________________________ 14/ The children are carrying the chairs into the house. - ______________________________________________________ 15/ They awarded him the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1946. - ______________________________________________________ 16/ We saw him leave the office at 6 o’clock this morning. - ______________________________________________________ 17/ My parents didn’t let me go to school this morning because I was ill. - ______________________________________________________ 18/ You ought to water these plants once a week. - ______________________________________________________ 19/ People saw her driving a car near the bridge. - ______________________________________________________ 20/ They said that he was the richest man in the town. - ______________________________________________________ 21/ Scientists began to carry out researches on AIDS in 1981. - ______________________________________________________ 22/ The boy knew that they were praising him. - ______________________________________________________ 23/ Everybody believed that he had died of lung cancer. - ______________________________________________________ 24/ They hadn’t built the bridge when we first came here. - ______________________________________________________ 25/ I can assure you that I will arrange everything in time. - ______________________________________________________ EXERCISE III : Change to the active voice. 1/ Progress in science is being made day after day. - ______________________________________________________ 2/ The palace was designed by a French architect. - ______________________________________________________ 3/ The road in front of my house has been paved. - ______________________________________________________ 4/ You can see that the dishes haven’t been washed. - ______________________________________________________ 5/ Our salaries will not be increased this year. - ______________________________________________________ 6/ Wasn’t that theatre built two years ago ? - ______________________________________________________ 7/ The problem may be discussed again. - ______________________________________________________ 8/ My brother has been offered a well-paid job. - ______________________________________________________ 9/ It is reported that the war started again in South America. - ______________________________________________________ 10/ I was told that I was going to be appointed manager of this company. - ______________________________________________________ - ______________________________________________________