Revision exercises

Ex. 19. Turn from active into passive.

1. Someone is helping her with the housework. _She is being helped with the housework.

2. A pickpocket robbed me. ______________________________________________________

3.You must give up your cigarettes. _______________________________________________

4. The mail-order company sent Mrs Green a parcel. __________________________________

5. Someone will pay you within the next few days. ___________________________________

6. You can improve your health with more exercise. __________________________________

7. A dog is chasing the child. _____________________________________________________

8. My friend sent me an invitation. ________________________________________________

9. The secretary has given Mrs Jones some letters. ____________________________________

10. The traffic warden had already given him a ticket for illegal parking. __________________

11. People must obey the law. ____________________________________________________

12. The farmer is building a new barn. _____________________________________________

13. They returned my keys to me: someone had picked them up in the street. _______________

14. You should keep the flowers in a warm sunny place. _______________________________

15. The watchman called the police. The police arrested the man.________________________

16. We can’t repair your clock. ___________________________________________________

17. Someone is interviewing Dr Johnson at the moment. _______________________________

18. You mustn’t touch this button. ________________________________________________

19. The court tried the man, found him guilty and sent him to prison. _____________________

20. We serve hot meals till 10.30. _________________________________________________

Ex. 20. Put the verb into the correct form. Use the Passive Voice where necessary.

A driver __________________(sent) to jail for 90 days for driving with excess alcohol. Graham Smith, 29, of North Street, Barton, ________________________(stop) by a police officials near his home last November and ________________________(find) to have drunk almost twice the legal limit for drivers, Didcot magistrates ______________________(hear) on Thursday.

Twelve months earlier Smith ___________________________(disqualify) from driving for three years for drink-driving. He ____________________________(disqualify) for twelve months in 1988 for a similar offence.

Mr Peter Jones, defending, _____________________(say) Smith ______________(use) the car to visit sick friend.

He ____________(say) Smith ______________________(depress) after the visit and ____________(go) to a pub and ________________(drink) six pints before driving home.

He ___________________(catch) by police during a routine speed check in Wantage Road, Barton.

Ex. 21. Put the verb in brackets into the correct form

1. The instructions (to be recorded) in the order in which they are to be carried out. 2. Many new branches of industry (to be developed) in our country since World War D. 3. The concept of the stored program (to be worked out) by J. Neuman in 1945. 4. The constituent parts of the computer (to be called) hardware. 5. A new program (to be compiled) when I came. 6. All these calculations (to be done) by 5 o'clock yesterday. 7. The information (to be collected) by the end of the next week. 8. This examination (to be taken) tomorrow. 9. Your papers (to be typed) now. Wait a minute. 10. A new input device (to be discussed) when we came. 11. A new model of the printer (to be shown) tomorrow. 12. Microcomputers (to be applied) since the 1970s. 13. Only one branch of a program (to be selected) on each occasion. 14. "Connector" symbols (to be used) to show the exit to or the entry from another point in the same flowchart