Unit 11 : Books : Test 1

Change the following into Passive.
1. Women clean this office in the evening after the staff have left.

-> This office is cleaned by woman in the evening after the staff have left.

2. You cannot wash this dress. You must dry-clean it.

-> This dress can not be washed and you must dry-clean it.
3. Someone left this purse in the classroom yesterday.

-> This purse was left in the classroom yesterday.
4. They’re pulling down the whole building.

-> The whole building are being pulled down.

5. We kill and injure people on the road every day. Can’t we do something about
it?

-> People are killed and injured on the road every day. Can’t we do something about it?

6. People often take him for his brother

-> He is often taken for his brother.
7. No one has put off the light.

-> The light has not been put off.
8. We are turning away students because the college is full.

-> Students are being turned away because the college is full.
9. They took down the old notice and put up a new one.

-> The old notice was taken down and a new one was put up.
10. They will have to adopt a different attitude.
-> A different attitude will have to be adopted.