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Present Simple Passive Voice Guide

The document provides examples of sentences written in both the active and passive voice in English. It then lists 20 sentences and asks to rewrite each one in the passive voice. Finally, it provides a short paragraph about forgery and asks to rewrite it in the passive voice as well. It also asks to rewrite 5 sentences about currencies and the production of banknotes in the passive voice.

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Present Simple Passive Voice Guide

The document provides examples of sentences written in both the active and passive voice in English. It then lists 20 sentences and asks to rewrite each one in the passive voice. Finally, it provides a short paragraph about forgery and asks to rewrite it in the passive voice as well. It also asks to rewrite 5 sentences about currencies and the production of banknotes in the passive voice.

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Passive Voice: Present Simple

subject

object
Active voice: Somebody cleans this room every day.

Passive voice: This room is cleaned every day.


subject

subject

object
Active voice: The company employs two hundred people.

Passive voice: Two hundred people are employed by the company.


subject

agent

Write in the Passive voice.

1 People use this road very often.


2 Hundreds of people visit this web page every day.
3 People buy many products by Internet.
4 They make Rolls Royce cars in England.
5 They grow rice in China.
6 They open the museum from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m..
7 People celebrate Halloween on 31st October.
8 How many hamburgers does McDonald’s sell every day?
9 People eat over 35 million McDonald’s hamburgers around the world every day.
10 They don’t allow dogs on this building.
11 They don’t allow smoking in public places.
12 The tobacco industry makes over $ 4.2 billion a year.
13 They don’t sell alcohol to minors in the U.S.A.
14 How often do you receive letters?
15 This shop doesn’t accept credit cards.
16 People speak English and French in Canada.
17 Where do they make the most trainers?
18 How many cars do people buy in the world every minute?
19 How much rubbish do they produce every year?
20 How much money do people spend with credit cards?
Complete with the verb in the Present Simple Passive:

Forgery!

Sometimes banknotes ………………………………… (copy) or ……………… (print)


by criminals. These illegal notes ……………………… (call) ‘forgeries’. It’s difficult to
make good forgeries, because special paper and serial numbers …………………….
(use) when real motes ………………………. (print). Also, when a banknote
………………………… (design), the artist draws a very detailed picture with fine
lines. Usually copies ……………………………….. (discover) by the public or the
police because they …………………………….. (not make) very well. Holograms and
security strips ………………………………… (not include) on most forgeries.

Rewrite the sentences in the Present Passive voice.

1. Where do they make coins?

2. Do they use dollars in Brazil?

3. What currency does your country use?

4. Where do they use euros?

5. Why do they call credit cards ‘plastic money’?

Read the text and rewrite it in the Present Passive voice.

How do they make banknotes in the US Mint?

First, different artists design the banknotes.


Then they choose the best designs.
When they choose a design, they transfer it to metal plates.
They use the metal plates to print sheets of banknotes.
They produce 8000 sheets every hour.
They print the sheets and then specialists check them.
After that they cut and count them.
A machine counts the banknotes.
They store the banknotes in a safe until banks need them.
The banks send the old banknotes to the Mint.
The Mint doesn’t keep old banknotes.
The Mint destroys millions of dollars every day.

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