SOS HEIP ME PLEASE Change the sentences into the passive by making the underlined word or phrase the subject of the sentence. Use by ... only if necessary.
1 A taxi took them to the airport.
They were taken to the airport by a taxi.
2 This time last week Michael Johnson was interviewing US on TV.
3 I have just found out that the company hasn't offered me a job.
4 Are you still upset that they didn’t choose you for the team?
5 When are they going to pay me my money?
6 This radio doesn’t use batteries. You have to wind it up.
7 When I first got my dog, no one had trained him at all.
8 Somebody had broken this computer before I bought it.
9 ‘Where are the new students?’ - ‘Someone is giving them a tour of the school.’
2. working; have
3. laughing
4. putting
5. going
6. writing
7. taking
8. to be arrested
9. leaving
10. doing; to do
11. plaiying
12. my husband grumbling
13. to buy; buying
14. used to walk
15. washing
16. losing
17. having been given
18. giving
19. to do; are
20. to go; felt like walking
21. trying; to discuss
22. being introduced
23. crying; failed keeping ur marriage going
24. being told
25. being treated
26. to lose
27. leaves; being spotted
28. being noticed
29. watching; reading
30. gambling; having
31. not being
32. I am not used to paying
33. seeing
34. avoid getting; start
35. reading; smoking
36. can't avoid hitting
37. is now considering to change
38. being; being treated
My favourite writer is Hans Christian Andersen.
I like to read. Most of all, I like to read fairy tales. My favourite storytelling writer is Hans Christian Andersen. His stories are familiar to me from early childhood. They are not like the others. In ordinary fairy tales, good always wins over evil and everything ends well. And Andersen's fairy tales are more like real life: there are laughter and tears, joy and grief – everything is like in real life. Andersen was a great storyteller and understood that even the most magical fairy tale should reflect life.
Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805 in the small town of Odense in Denmark. His father was a poor shoemaker, and the storyteller's childhood was spent in a modest house. There he could see everything that later came to life in his fairy tales: a soldier made from an old tin spoon, a darning needle, and a vegetable garden in a box, familiar to us from the fairy tale "The Snow Queen".
The shoemaker's family lived hard, so Hans Christian had to go to work at the age of 12 in a cloth factory. And he could only study in the evenings at a free school for the poor. But he studied with passion, great desire, all his free time reading and listening. He read books and listened to fairy tales – he loved them more than anything else in the world.
He decided to become a writer and write fairy tales. It wasn't easy, but Hans Andersen was as tough and tenacious as his tin soldier. And in fairy tales, he told everyone the truth, just like the boy in the story of the naked king.
Andersen became the first good adviser to all children on earth. And that means all people, because all adults were once children. Andersen's fairy tales are not only written for children. They contain many wise thoughts. "The Snow Queen" teaches true friendship, "Thumbelina" - mutual assistance, "The new dress of the king" - truthfulness, "Flint" - wit, and the heroine of my favourite fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" for the sake of her beloved sacrifices her own life!
I really like Andersen's fairy tales, and I want as many children and adults as possible to read and reread his wonderful, magical, slightly sad and such unusual works.