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Passive Voice Songs

Read the active sentences and choose the correct passive version. Then listen and check.

The hopeless and the hungry paved this road.

o This road was paved by the hopeless and the hungry.
o This road is paved by the hopeless and the hungry.
o The road paves the hopeless and the hungry.

They didn’t build Rome in a day.

o Rome isn’t built in a day
o Rome weren’t built in a day.
o Rome wasn’t built in a day.

Some of them want that someone else abuses at them.

o Some of them want to be abused.
o Some of them abuse.
o Some of them want to abuse.

They make the sweet dreams of this.

o Sweet dreams were made of this.
o Sweet dreams make this.
o Sweet dreams are made of this.

Don’t waste your whole life trying to get back what someone took away.
o Don’t waste your whole life trying to get back what they took away.
o Don’t waste your whole life trying to get back what was taken away.
o Don’t waste your whole life trying to get back what is taken away.

Somebody wrote in the stars the place where we are.

o The place where we are writes the stars.
o The place where we are is written in the stars.
o The place where we are was written in the stars.

Nobody wrote the rest still.

o The rest is still unwritten.
o The rest are still unwritten.
o The rest writes.

Somebody bruised the sky, somebody bled the wine.

o The sky was bruised, the wine is bled.
o The sky was bruised, the wine was bled.
o The sky bruised, the wine is bled.

Someone blessed me because you loved me.

o I was blessed because I was loved by you.
o I was blessed because I were loved by you.
o I was blessed because I am loved by you.

By Claudio Cajes