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Downloadable worksheets: Introducing the "Passive Voice" (1) - Basic rules for Upper elementary and Intermediate students Level: intermediate Age: 10-14 Downloads: 5577   Active and Passive Level: intermediate Age: 10-17 Downloads: 4418   PASSIVE VOICE (PRESENT SIMPLE AND PAST SIMPLE) Level: elementary Age: 7-17 Downloads: 4150   Passive Level: intermediate Age: 14-17 Downloads: 3668   Passive Voice Level: intermediate Age: 14-17 Downloads: 2733   The American Dream Level: advanced Age: 15-17 Downloads: 24

������� . � �Exercise 1 Practice using passive forms. � Example: Someone will�sell this book. Response: This book will be sold. � Someone should sell this book.����� Someone ought to sell�this book.� Someone must sell�this book.� Someone will sell this book.�� Someone is going to sell this book.� Someone may sell this book.�� Someone is selling this book.�� Someone was selling this book.�� Someone has sold this book.�� Someone sold this book.�� Exercise 2 Change the sentences from active to passive. � Example: Mary mailed the letter. Response: The letter was mailed by Mary. � Water surrounds an island.�� A carpenter is going to fix the door.�� The police arrested the spy.�� Planes fascinate children.�� A large number of people speak English.�� My sister is writing a letter.��� The doctor has examined the sick child.�� Mr. Adams will do the work.� The jeweler was going to fix my watch.�� That company employs many people.��