Passive voice sentences exercises

20 sentences in passive voice from newspaper 1 active and passive voice in newspaper articles 2 passive voice news headlines exercises 3 passive voice news report 4 Rewrite the sentences in two ways: once in the impersonal passive and once in the personal passive. Example: They think that he earns a lot of money. → It is thought that he earns a lot of money. → He is thought to earn a lot of money. Visitors say that these museums have wonderful exhibits. It these museums have wonderful exhibits. 5 Grammar B1-B2 grammar Passives Passives Do you know how to use the passive voice to change the focus of a sentence? Test what you know with interactive exercises and read the explanation to help you. Look at these examples to see how the passive voice is used. A lot of olive oil is produced in Italy. This book was written by Angela Davis. 6 Exercise 1: Passive voice (1) Change the sentences into the passive. Keep the same tense. Type the sentences into the box. 7 The first one is already in the passive voice (subject + be + past participle). The second one does not have "be" in it, so it's just a noun phrase (noun + past participle). It can be changed into the passive voice: The mission is accomplished. The active voice would be something like: I grant you permission and I accomplished the mission. 8 Practise turning active sentences into passive sentences and passive sentences into active sentences. 9 Learn how and why we use the Passive Voice and then do lots of practice exercises to test yourself. 10 Here's a list of exercises for practice with the passive. Present Simple Exercise (intermediate) Past Simple Exercise (intermediate) Present Perfect Exercise (intermediate) Future Simple Exercise (intermediate) Mixed Tense Exercise (difficult) Verbs with two objects (difficult) Subordinate Clauses (difficult) Do you want to master English grammar?. 11