Put the verbs into the correct passive form. 1 I've collected all the documents that (need) for the...

1. I've collected all the documents that are needed for the house sale. Can you take them to the lawyer's office to be signed?
2. Look, this is a secret. Come into the garden where we will not be overheard.
3. If you hadn't been so late for work, you wouldn't have been sacked.
4. This office is very inefficient. The phone is never answered promptly, no proper records are kept, and, worst of all, no reports have been written since I started work here.
5. I was so worried about my garden while I was in hospital, but I have very good neighbours. When I got home, I could see that the vegetables were watered every day and the grass was cut regularly.
6. Can you come to the police station? The man who is suspected of stealing your wallet has been arrested and is being questioned at the moment. The police hope he will be identified, either by you or another witness.
7. We had hoped to see several famous paintings, but the gallery was being reorganised at the time of our visit and most of the really valuable works had been moved for safe keeping.

Certainly! Let's put the verbs into the correct passive form for each sentence:

1. I've collected all the documents that are needed for the house sale. Can you take them to the lawyer's office to be signed?

   • In this sentence, "are needed" is the passive form of "need" in the present simple tense. "To be signed" is the passive infinitive form of "sign."

2. Look, this is a secret. Come into the garden where we won't be overheard.

   • Here, "won't be overheard" is the passive form of "not overhear" in the future simple tense.

3. If you hadn't been so late for work, you wouldn't have been sacked.

   • This sentence uses the third conditional, and the passive form "wouldn't have been sacked" is used for the verb "sack."

4. This office is very inefficient. The phone is never answered promptly, no proper records are kept, and, worst of all, no reports have been written since I started work here.

   • "Is never answered" is the passive form of "never answer" in the present simple tense. "Are kept" is the present simple passive form of "keep." "Have been written" is the present perfect passive form of "write."

5. I was so worried about my garden while I was in hospital, but I have very good neighbours. When I got home, I could see that the vegetables had been watered every day and the grass had been cut regularly.

   • "Had been watered" and "had been cut" are both in the past perfect passive tense, indicating actions that were completed before another past event.

6. Can you come to the police station? The man who is suspected of stealing your wallet has been arrested and is being questioned at the moment. The police hope he will be identified, either by you or another witness.

   • "Is suspected" is the present simple passive form of "suspect." "Has been arrested" is the present perfect passive form of "arrest." "Is being questioned" is the present continuous passive form of "question." "Will be identified" is the future simple passive form of "identify."

7. We had hoped to see several famous paintings, but the gallery was being reorganised at the time of our visit and most of the really valuable works had been moved for safe keeping.

   • "Was being reorganised" is the past continuous passive form of "reorganise." "Had been moved" is the past perfect passive form of "move."

These passive forms are used to emphasize the action or the object of the action rather than the subject performing the action.

1. needed, to be signed
2. will not be overheard
3. would not have been sacked
4. is never answered, are kept, have been written
5. were watered, was cut
6. is suspected, has been arrested, is being questioned, will be identified
7. was being reorganised, had been moved