Active to passive

A. Write the following active sentences in the passive.
1. We use this room only on special occasions.
2. In some districts farmers use pigs to find truffles.
3. You should open the wine about three hours before you use it.
4. Somebody had cleaned my shoes and brushed my suit.
5. You must not hammer nails into the walls without permission.
6. Somebody had slashed the picture with a knife.
7. They are pulling down the old theatre.
8. Why didn´t they mend the roof before it fell in?
9. The mob broke all the shop windows in recent riots.
10. The librarian said that they were starting a new system because people were not returning books.
11. Someone will serve refreshments.
12. People must not leave bicycles in the hall.
13. Members may keep books for three weeks. After thar they must return them.
14. The burglars had cut an enormous hole in the steel door.
15. The organizers will exhibit the paintings till the end of the month.
16. Most people opposed this.
17. We will not admit children under sixteen.
18. Who wrote it?
19. Students are doing a lot of the work.
20. We have already discussed the new plans.
21. We have just picked these flowers.
22. He threw away the old clothes.
23. A jeep picked up the soldiers from the base.
24. Sheila turned down the offer of a company car.

C. Verbs with two complements.
1.They showed Sarah the photographs.
2.Normally, they pay me my salary every month.
3.I think that they have sent us the wrong tickets.
4.I hope that someone will give Sally the message.
5.They didn´t ask me for my address.
6.I thought that someone had told you about the meeting.

D. It is said that he...../ He is said to .......
1.People expect that taxes will be reduced soon.
2.People say that the monument is over 2000 years old.
3.People think that the fire started at about 8 o´clock.
4.People expect that the president will resign.
5.Journalist reported that seven people had been injured in the fire.

E. Finish the sentences with 'have something done' in the correct form.

Why does he ................................................................... ?   (all his shoes/ make)
I can't read Greek so I am ........................................   (the documents/ translate)
The house was damp so last winter we .......................   (central heating/ install)
The hall was dark so last year we ..............................   (another window/ put in)
He went to a garage to .......................................................   (the puncture/ mend)
If you hate cleaning fish, why don't you .......................he fishmonger's? (it/ clean)
He didn't like the colour of the curtains so he .............................    (them/ change)
Your roof is leaking, you should ........................................................    (it/ repair)
That tooth is giving you a lot of trouble. You should ........................   (it/ take out)