Past Simple Passive

1. Complete the blanks with the suitable past simple passive form of
the verbs in brackets:

a) Lamps and candles ............................... for light, because there was no

electricity. (use)

b) A coach instead of a car ................................. to move from place to place.

(buy)

c) By the 1860's bicycles ................................. along with horses. (ride)

d) A simple small house ...................................... by a poor family. (build)

e) Luxurious palaces .................................... by wealthy aristocratic families.

(own)

2. Use the words given to make sentences in the past simple passive.
Look at the example:

two | break | glasses

Two glasses were broken.

a) tidy up | the room |

not ...................................................................................................................

......

b) on | sandwiches | the table | leave |

some ...............................................................................................................

..........
 c) empty | not | waste

bin ...................................................................................................................

......

d) with | coke | stain | the

sofa .................................................................................................................

........

3. Use the past simple passive to rewrite the sentences:

a) You could cut the branch with this

knife. ..............................................................................................................

..........

b) Too many tourists annoyed

me. .................................................................................................................

.......

c) They didn't tell us what to

do. ..................................................................................................................

......

d) Cars killed a lot of

pedestrians. ...................................................................................................

.....................
e) He didn't expect us to help

him. ...............................................................................................................

.........