ACTIVE TO PASSIVE

  1. The milkman brings the milk to my door but the postman leaves the letters in the hall.
  2. In future, perhaps, they won’t bring letters to the houses.
  3. Normally men sweep this street every day, but nobody swept it last week.
  4. The postman clears this box three times a day. He last cleared it at 2.30.
  5. Someone turned on a light in the hall and opened the door.
  6. Women clean this office in the evening ,they clean the upstairs office between seven and eight in the morning.
  7. Someone left his purse in a classroom yesterday; the cleaner found it.
  8. We build well over 1,000 houses every year. Last year we built 1,500.
  9. We serve hot meals till 10.30, and guests can order coffee and sandwiches up to 11.30.
  10. Passengers leave all sorts of things in buses. The conductors collect them and send them to the Lost Property Office.
  11. An ambulance took the sick man to hospital.
  12. We kill and injure people on the roads every day. Can’t we do something about this?
  13. Dogs guard the warehouse. The other day a thief tried to get in and a dog saw him and chased him.
  14. The watchman called the police. The police arrested the man.
  15. You can’t wash this dress; you must dry-clean it.
  16. They are demolishing the entire block.
  17. They are repairing my piano at the moment.
  18. Passengers shouldn’t throw their tickets as inspectors may check these during the journey.
  19. They invited Jack but they didn’t invite Tom.
  20. The guests ate all the sandwiches and drank all the beer. They left nothing.
  21. Tom Smith wrote the book and Brown and Co. published it.
  22. We shall have to tow the car to the garage.
  23. We will prosecute trespassers.
  24. Someone stole my car and abandoned it fifteen miles away. He had removed the radio but done no other damage.
  25. You must keep dogs on leads in the gardens.
  26. Men with slide rules used to do these calculations; now a computer does them.
  27. Someone is following us.
  28. Someone cleans my windows every month.
  29. Spanish society has often supported humanitarian causes.
  30. They are building a new skyscraper in New York.
  31. They say that English is easier than Spanish.
  32. Radiohead couldn’t release their new record last December.
  33. They never gave me instructions”.
  34. Medical advances have greatly reduced the number of deaths.
  35. We have to find new ways back to the old values.
  36. Governments are analysing the benefits of green energy”.
  37. They say he is very young to work.
  38. My father has brought us up in the respect for human rights.

PASSIVE TO ACTIVE VOICE

  1. All these deaths could have been avoided by health workers.
  2. Although help has been offered by some non-profit organizations, the situation of the newly arrived immigrants isvery poor.
  3. They were shown a picture of an attacking shark