Ex. 2 complete each sentence with a passive verb. a) the police questioned george. georgewa questioned b) millions of people watch this programme. this programme c) they will finish our new house at the end of the month our new house by the police by millions of people. .at the end of the month. d) they've elected a new president. a new president e they're rebulding the damaged stadium. the damaged stadium they've closed the mountain road. the mountain road 8students write most of this magazine. by students most of this magazine h) a burglar stole my laptop. my laptop by a burglar i) somebody will meet you at the bus station . at the bus station you united won the cup last year last year the cup ,by united.
The original sentence is in the active voice, where "the police" is the subject and "questioned" is the verb. To change it to the passive voice, we need to make "George" the subject and use the past participle form of the verb, which in this case is "questioned".
b) This programme is watched by millions of people.
Again, we need to change the sentence from active to passive. The original subject "millions of people" becomes the agent of the action and the verb "watch" is changed to its past participle form, "watched".
c) Our new house will be finished at the end of the month.
To change the sentence to passive, we need to make "our new house" the subject and use the future tense of the verb "finish", which is "will be finished".
d) A new president has been elected.
In this case, we already have a passive sentence. We just need to remove the contraction "they've" and change "elected" to its past participle form, "been elected".
e) The damaged stadium is being rebuilt.
Again, we already have a passive sentence. We just need to change "rebuilt" to its present participle form, "being rebuilt".
f) The mountain road has been closed.
Once more, we already have a passive sentence. We just need to change "closed" to its past participle form, "been closed".
g) Most of this magazine is written by students.
To change the sentence to passive, we make "students" the agent and use the past participle form of the verb "write", which is "written".
h) My laptop was stolen by a burglar.
Again, we already have a passive sentence. We just need to change "by a burglar" to its correct position after the verb "stolen".
i) You will be met at the bus station by somebody.
Once more, we have a passive sentence. We just need to switch the positions of "you" and "somebody" and use the future tense of the verb "meet", which is "will be met".
j) The cup was won by United last year.
Again, we already have a passive sentence. We just need to change the position of "by United" and use the past tense of the verb "win", which is "won".
In summary, to change a sentence from active to passive, we need to make the object of the active sentence the subject of the passive sentence, and use the past participle form of the verb. Additionally, we may need to adjust the tense and include the agent (the doer of the action) using the preposition "by".