Passive Quiz/Exercises

Change the sentence from active to passive. Include the "by-noun" only if necessary.

1. Bob smith built that house. _________________________________
   
2. Someone built this house in 1904. _____________________________
   
3. People grow rice in India. ___________________________________
   
4. People speak Spanish in Venezuela. ____________________________
   
5. Do people speak Spanish in Peru?. ____________________________
   
6. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. ___________________
   
7. When did someone invent the wheel?. __________________________
   
8. People sell hammers at a hardware store. _______________________
   
9. People use hammers to pound nails. ___________________________
   
10. The presidents has canceled the meeting. _______________________
    
11. Someone has canceled the soccer game. ________________________
    
12. Someone will list my name in the new telephone directory. ___________
    
13. Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species. ____________________
    
14. Someone published The Origin of Species in 1859. _________________
    
15. Someone serves beer and wine at that restaurant. _________________
    
16. Has anyone ever hypnotized you?. ____________________________
    
17. Something confused me in class yesterday. ______________________
    
18. Something embarrassed me yesterday. ________________________
    
19. Someone has changed the name of this street from Bay Avenue to Martin Luther King Way. ___________________________________________________
    
20. Someone filmed many of the Tarzan movies in the rain forest in Puerto Rico.____________________________________________________

Taken From: Fundamentals of English Grammar second edition-
Betty Schrampfer Azar