ENSEIGNEMENT SECONDAIRE


Use active or passive voice


Classes : 5ème

Put the sentences into passive voice. Do not mention the agent unless it seems necessary.

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 even bring letters to the houses and we shall have to collect them from the post office.
3. People steal things from supermarket every day; someone stole twenty bottles of whisky from this one week.
4. Normally men sweep this street every day, but nobody swept it last week.
5. The postman clears this box three times a day .He last cleared it at 2.30.
6. Someone turned on a light in the hall and opened the door.
7. Women clean this office in the evening after the staff has left; they clean the upstairs offices between seven and eight in the morning.
8. We never saw him in the dining- room. A maid took all his meals up to him.
9. Someone left this purse in the classroom yesterday; the cleaner found it.
10. We build well over 1000 new houses a year. Last year, we build 1500.
11. We serve hot meals till 10.30, and guests can order coffer and sandwiches up to 11.30.

12. Passengers leave all sorts of things in buses. The conductors collect them and send to the lost property office.

Correction

1. The milk is brought, the letters are left.
2. Letters won̢۪t be brought; they̢۪ll have to be collected from.
3. Things are stolen from, twenty bottles were stolen.
4. This street is swept, it wasn̢۪t swept.
5. This box is cleared, it was last cleared.
6. A light was turned on and the door (was) opened.
7. This office is cleaned, the upstairs offices are cleaned.
8. He was never seen, all this meal were taken up.
9. This purse was leftâ€Â¦..it was found by the cleaner.
10.1000 new houses are build, last year 1500 were build
11. Hot meals are served; coffee and sandwiches can be order.
12. All sorts of things are left in buses. They are collected by the conductors and (are) sent.