1) Put the following into the Passive Voice. Do not mention the agent.
1. Somebody cleaned my shoes and brushed my suit.
2. The burglars had cut an enormous hole in the steel door.
3. I’ve bought a harp. They are delivering it this afternoon.
4. We use this room only on special occasions.
5. In some districts farmers use pigs to find truffles.
6. Someone will serve refreshments.
7. Someone switched on a light and opened the door.
8. Somebody had slashed the picture with a knife.
9. Why didn't they mend the roof before it fell in?
10. No one can do anything unless someone gives us more information.
11. The mob broke all the shop windows in recent riots.
12. The police asked each of us about his movements on the night of the crime.
13. You should open the wine about three hours before you use it.
14. Previous climbers had cut steps in the ice.
15. People must not leave bicycles in the hall.
16. Members may keep books for three weeks. After that they must return them.
17. Someone has already told him to report for duty at six.
18. They are pulling down the old theatre.
19. They rang the church bells as a flood warning.
20. You must not hammer nails into the walls without permission.
2) Put the following into the Passive Voice, mentioning the agent where necessary.
1. Who wrote it?
2. An uneasy silence succeeded the shot.
3. Did the idea interest you?
4. He expected us to offer him the job.
5. They showed her the easiest way to do it.
6. Lightning struck the old oak.
7. The author has written a special edition for children.
8. Judges used to carry sweet herbs as a protection against jail-fever.
9. What did he write it with? – He wrote it with a matchstick dipped in blood.
10. The lawyer gave him the details of his uncle's will.
11. The Prime Minister was to have opened the dry dock.
12. They stopped the game because of the rain.
13. Titian couldn't have painted it as people didn't wear that style of dress till after his death.
14. A jellyfish stung her.
15. The closure of the workshops will make a lot of men redundant.
16. Anyone with the smallest intelligence could understand these instructions.
17. They used to start these engines by hand. Now they start them by electricity.
18. Most people opposed this.
19. Students are doing a lot of the work.
20. Compare clothes which we have washed with clothes which any other laundry has washed.