NAME:____larisa ivon muñoz barrios _____________________________________________________________DATE:__11 February

2021_______________COURSE:_English III ID 515511______

INSTRUCTIONS: Investigate how the passive voice is formed in the past simple tense and rewrite the following sentences. They
could be in present or past simple, affirmative negative or interrogative.
A. Rewrite the following sentences.

1. Was the telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell? _The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham

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2. These books were written by an Irishman. __this books was written by an Irishman

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3. The president is not elected by the people. _the president was elected by the people

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4. Is that bag packed by his mother? _the bag was packed by his mother

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5. The child was not hit by a car. _The child wat his by a car

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6. The teacher did not complete the exercise. _the exercise is completed by the teacher

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7. The club was founded by Ron and Peggy. __Ron and peggy founded the club

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8. Football is not played by the child. _the children will not play football

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9. He did the homework. _did you do your homework?

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10. Was the fighting started by Mike? _mike started the

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E. Choose the correct form of the verbs in brackets and complete in active or passive in each space. Look the example.

FIAT

Fiat (0) was started (started/was started) by a group of Italian businessmen in 1899. In 1903, Fiat, (11) ________________________________

(produced/was produced) 132 cars. Some of these cars (12) __________________________________ (exported/were exported) by the company to

the United States and Britain.

In 1920, Fiat (13) _____________________________________ (started/was started) making cars at a new factory at Lingotto, near Turin. There

was a track on the roof where the cars (14) ________________________________________ (tested/were tested) by technicians. In 1936, Fiat

launched the Fiat 500. This car (15) _____________________________________ (called/was called) the Topolino – the Italian name for Mickey

Mouse. The company grew, and in 1963 Fiat (16) ____________________________________ (exported/was exported) more than 300,000 vehicles.

Today, Fiat is based in Turin, and its cars (17)_______________________________________ (sold/are sold) all over the world.

18-20. Rewrite the following passage in the Passive.

Some people saw a UFO in the sky above London last night. They reported it to the police. The army sent a helicopter to look at it closer. The
UFO shot the helicopter down and killed both men in it. People have given photographs of the UFO to the police. Experts are looking at them
now.
_THE UFO IN THE SKY WAS SEEN BY SOME PEOPLE ABOVE LONDON LAS NIGHT, WHICH WAS REPORTED BY THEM AT THE

POLICE. A HELICOPTER WAS SENT BY THE ARMY TO LOOK AT IT MORE CLOSER. THE HELICOPTER WAS SHOT DOWN BY

THE UFO AND KILLED BOTH MEN IN IT. TH PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE UFO HAVE BEEN GIVEN BY THE PEOPLE TO THE

POLICE, AND THEY ARE BEING LOOKED BY EXPERTS

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