Instead of using ‘somebody’, ‘they’ etc., write a passive sentence.
1. Somebody has cleaned the room. The room has been cleaned .
2. They are building a new road around the city..
3. They have built two new hotels near the airport.
4. When I last visited, they were building some new houses here. When I last visited, some
.
5. The meeting is now on 15 April. They have changed the date. The date of
.
6. I didn’t know that somebody was recording our conversation. I didn’t know that our
.
7. Is anyone doing anything about the problem?
about the problem?
8. The windows were very dirty. Nobody had cleaned them for ages.
The windows were very dirty. They
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1. Somebody has cleaned the room. The room has been cleaned .
2. They are building a new road around the city.
A new road around the city is being built.
3. They have built two new hotels near the airport.
Two new hotels have been built near the airport.
4. When I last visited, they were building some new houses here.
When I last visited, some new houses were being built here.
5. The meeting is now on 15 April. They have changed the date.
The date of the meeting has been changed.
6. I didn’t know that somebody was recording our conversation.
I didn’t know that our conversation was being recorded.
7. Is anyone doing anything about the problem?
Is anything being done about the problem?
8. The windows were very dirty. Nobody had cleaned them for ages.
The windows were very dirty. They hadn't been cleaned for ages.