The Passive

The Passive

• My uncle manages a huge firm.
  
• My children like toys very much.
  
• My little sister sometimes asks stupid questions.
  
• Those people are talking about politics.
  
• They are writing the test exercises at the present time.
  
• Kamal is carrying a heavy box.
  
• I have sent a parcel to the USA.
  
• Jalil has received two letters.
  
• Willy has bought a limousine.
  

• Ziryab composed some beautiful love songs.
  
• Hind lost her family in a road accident.
  
• The customer ordered a green salad and a cheese sandwich.
  
• I was cleaning my room when the light went out.
  
• My wife was making a pizza when I arrived home.
  
• The teacher was explaining the irregular verbs to the students.
  
• She had taken all my books.
  
• I replied the teacher’s question politely.
  
• Pablo Picasso had painted Guernica in 1937.
  

• Jalil and Jamal will finish the job tomorrow.
  
• The dog will eat the bone.
  
• They will move before June.
  
• He will have begun the job by next week.
  
• Man will have set colonies in the moon by the year 2050.
  
• I will have completed his high studies by the end of next year.
  
• They are going to have some Chinese food for dinner.
  
• Jalil is going to offer me a watch for my coming birthday.
  
• She is going to invite her friends for lunch next weekend.
  

• Jalil can speak two foreign languages.
  
• The firm may give a high rise to the workers.
  
• The lazy students might get weak marks in the test.
  
• Jamal should learn the irregular verbs.
  
• Drivers ought to respect the traffic law.
  
• Obese people had better practise sport everyday.
  
• Moroccan people must apply for visas to travel to the UK.
  
• The prisoners have to clean their cells every weekend.
  

• My little brother should have broken the vase.
  
• He should have got a bad mark in the French test.
  
• Students ought to have learned the irregular verbs by heart.
  
• The bank may have received my fax.
  
• The boss may have offered Jamal a new duty in the company.
  
• She might have done the homework correctly.
  
• They might have had dinner in a Chinese diner.
  
• The ministers of foreign affairs might have talked about the world economic crisis.