17. The brochure gives hardly any useful information.
->Precious little information is given in the brochure.

18.The government shouldn't let this situation get worse.

->This state of affairs shouldn’t be allowed to get worse by the government.

19. The completion of the work was scheduled for last week.
-> The work was to be completed last week.

21. Most newsagents these days have ice-cream available all summer.
-> Ice-cream can be available all summer in most newsagents these days.

22. I took my car to the garage last Saturday and they resprayed it.
-> I had my car resprayed by the garage last Saturday.

23. The collision didn't damaged my car much.

-> Not a great deal of damage was caused to my car by the collision.
24. The critics were very impressed by her performance.
-> Her performance made a strong impression on the critics.

25. I have frequently made stupid mistakes like that

->Many's the time I have made stupid mistakes like that.

26. The manager wrote a long ungrammatical report
->The report written by the manager was long and grammatical