A practical english grammar - Vyssaja skola 1978

Exercises
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Exercise 1. The passive voice. Change the active sentences below to sentences in the passive voice. Omit from your sentence the italicized part.

Example: A gang of workmen built the house in 1840.

The house was built in 1840.

1. The secretary will mail these letters tomorrow.

2. Someone ought to wash those dishes right away.

3. The factory produced 5,000 cars every day.

4. People drink a great deal of tea in England.

5. Craftsmen make many beautiful objects of paper in Japan.

6. They used to sell medicine here.

7. You must return these books within two weeks.

8. The police arrested him for speeding.

9. You should plant these flowers in a sunny place.

10. Someone had locked the door.

Exercise 2. Sentences with two objects. Change the sentences below so that the indirect object is in front of the direct object wherever this change is permissible.

Example:

They gave a present to me.

They gave me a present.

1. We sent a price list to them.

2. We sent it to them.

3. She brought the flowers to her father.

4. She made a jacket for her son.

5. He explained the exercise to us.

6. Mary wrote a letter to a Venezuelan girl that she had met the summer before.

7. Would you pass the sugar to Mr. Evans?

8. I sold my car to him.

9. He didn’t say a word to me.

10. They showed their photographs to us.