Exercise 2. Insert the required tense (Passive Voice).

1. "I don't want to hear another word. I __ never __ so __ in my whole life. (to insult) (Shaw)

2. But what shall I do if you __? (to kill) (Shaw)

3. Godfrey waited, before he spoke again, until the ale __ and the door __ (to bring, to close) (Eliot)

4. He read the current research journals, trying to understand the implications of the experiments which __ throughout the world. (to perform) (Wilson)

5. Merriman, order the dog-cart at once. Mr. Ernest __ suddenly to town. (to call back) (Wilde)

6. Upon the Doctor and the widow the eyes of both Mr. Tuprnan and his companion __ for some time, when the stranger broke silence. (to fix) (Dickens)

7. In 1834, the Houses of Parliament, with the exception of Westminster Hall __ by fire. They __ by Sir Charles Barry, (to destroy, to rebuild)

8. Lanny noticed that he __ by three white men from the coffee stall on the other side of the road. (to watch)

9. You can feel when you __. (to watch) (Hilton)

10. The oldest of London's present-day theatres is the Theatre Royal, which __ in 1663 and __ since __ several times. (to open, to reconstruct)

11. We __ if we __, but never mind, (to scold, to see) (Ch. Bronte)

12. The Nobel Prize __ to him in 1924, ten years after his famous experiment __ (to give, to perform)

13. Rumania is a Balkan State which ___ for its mineral springs. (to know)

14. Antonia: Thank you. Thank you.

Martin: What __ I __ for? (to thank) (Murdoch and Priestley)

15. After a few routine questions __ and __, Dr. Lord leant back in his chair and smiled at his patient. (to ask, to answer) (Christie)

16. Ettore was twenty-three. He __ by an uncle in San Francisco and was visiting his father and mother in Torino when war __ (to bring up, to declare) (Hemingway)

17. In the evening the doctor __ for. (to send)

18. One could not walk or drive about Philadelphia without seeing or being impressed with the general tendency toward a more cultivated and selective social life. Many excellent and expensive houses __ (to erect) (Dreiser)

19....the railway __ at all at that time, (to use — negitive) (Shute)

20. Lanny __ cruelly, heartlessly in the way Sara __ When he __, the barking of a dog __. It __ by hurried footsteps. (to beat, to beat, to beat, to hear, to follow)

Exercise 3. Change the Active Voice into the Passive Voice:

 

1) That day they hardly saw her.

2) People talk much about a man who is always very attractive.

3) She will take care of me quite well. I shall be quite safe.

4) We have sent for him urgently.

5) The maid was standing and opening the gate at the moment.

6) On either side they said nothing more.

7) Nobody has accused me of that kind of things before.

8) Somehow they will look after the child.

9) I just chatter when they chatter to me.

10) People have laughed at me and endured insults.

11) They can never do the effect of my education away with.

12) Soon she will teach music and singing to kids.

13) Two other people had joined us by that time.

14) It is interesting to talk to Gemma.

 

Измените Действительный залог в Страдательный залог:

 

1) В тот день они едва видели ее.

2) Люди говорят очень о человеке, который всегда очень привлекателен.

3) Она будет заботиться обо мне вполне хорошо. Я буду довольно безопасен.

4) Мы послали за ним срочно.

5) Девица выдерживала и открывала ворота в настоящее время.

6) С обеих сторон они не сказали ничего больше.

7) Никто не обвинил меня в таких вещах прежде.

8) Так или иначе они будут заботиться о ребенке.

9) Я только болтаю, когда они болтают мне.

10) Люди смеялись надо мной и вынесли оскорбления.

11) Они никогда не могут делать эффекта моего образования далеко с.

12) Скоро она будет преподавать музыку и поющий детям.

13) Два других людей присоединились к нам к тому времени.

14) Интересно говорить с Джеммой.