6. In the end, the party wasn't held last night.

7. Were you advised by your parents?

8. Can the dress be taken back to the shop?

9. Has the baby already beenborn?

10. What present have you been given?

12. He sold his car last week. (Past simple tense)

13. His car wassold last week. (Past simple tense)

14. The object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence:

15. He sold his car last week.

18. Which object to transform into a subject depends on what you want to put the focus on. For drilling purposes, it is customary to use the first one:

19. They will send some books to Pam.

20. Some books will be sent to Pam. (Note the Spanish “Le mandaránalgunoslibros a Pam.”)

21. They will send Pam some books.

24. She showed me her new house.

25. I was shown her new house. (Note the Spanish “Me enseñósunueva casa.”)

26. Leaving aside focus or learning issues, in English the active Oi is usually preferred as the subject of the passive sentence (except with explain and suggest):

27. The teacher gave usa test. (Active voice)

28. We were given a test by the teacher. (Passive voice)

29. A test was given to us by the teacher. (Passive voice)

32. Shakespeare didn’t write that play.

33. That play wasn’t written by Shakespeare. (Note the Spanish “Esaobra no la escribióShakespeare.”)

34. The police arrested the thief.

37. The Guernika was painted by Picasso.

38. To include more information, not previously mentioned:

39. While we were driving down the road, we were stopped by a policeman.

40. When we refer to the means of doing something or a plan. In this case we use a non-finite –ing form after the preposition by: