Passives

Write the past participle of each verb under the verb: paint, painted
paint write discover invent build climb
manufacture kill cause grow eat
first see make shoot assassinate destroy
Fill in the blanks using the passive voice:
(1) Romeo and Juliet ______________________Shakespeare.

(2) San Francisco _____________________ an earthquake in

1906.

(3) More traffic accidents ___________________ drunk

drivers than anything else.

(4) The Sistine Chapel ___________________ Michelangelo.

(5) The Mona Lisa ___________________ Leonardo da Vinci.

(6) Rice ___________________ Koreans, Chinese, and

Japanese.

(7) The light bulb ___________________ Edison.

(8) The Law of Gravity ___________________ Newton.

(9) The moons of Jupiter ___________________ Galileo.

(10) Everest ___________________ Sir Edmund Hillary.

(11) Lung cancer ___________________ smoking.

(12) JFK ___________________ Lee Harvey Oswald.

(13) The pyramids ___________________ the pharaohs.

(14) The Eiffel Tower ___________________ in the 19th

century.
(15) The Sphinx’s nose ___________________ Napoleon.

(16) Cars ______________________ in America, Japan, and

Korea.