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    THE PASSIVE EXERCISE 5

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    Passive 5 (mixed tenses)

    Change these active sentences to passive. Choose if you need the agent or not.

    1) The Government is planning a new road near my house.
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    2) My grandfather built this house in 1943.
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    3) Picasso was painting Guernica at that time.
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    4) The cleaner has cleaned the office.
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    5) He had written three books before 1867.
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    6) John will tell you later.
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    7) By this time tomorrow we will have signed the deal.
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    8) Somebody should do the work.
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    9) The traffic might have delayed Jimmy.
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    10) People speak Portuguese in Brazil.
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    11) Everybody loves Mr Brown.
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    12) They are building a new stadium near the station.
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    13) The wolf ate the princess.
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    14) At six o'clock someone was telling a story.
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    15) Somebody has drunk all the milk!
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    16) I had cleaned all the windows before the storm.
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    17) A workman will repair the computer tomorrow.
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    18) By next year the students will have studied the passive.
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    19) James might cook dinner.
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    20) Somebody must have taken my wallet.
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