The passive voice is used to focus on the Object (DO) of the sentence.

STRUCTURE: DIRECT OBJECT + BE (was/were) + Vpast participle

CHANGE THE SENTENCES INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE.

0. Roberto ate my cheese sandwich.

My cheese sandwich was eaten by Roberto .

1. Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in 1975.

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2. My grandmother made delicious pancakes.

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3. My father bought a car last year.

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4. Someone stole the Maria’s laptop.

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5. The kids forgot the whole story in a few days.

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6. The president made an important speech last night.

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7. The wild animals killed two men yesterday.

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8. Thomas Edison invented the light bulb.

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9. Lee Harvey Oswald murdered J.F. Kennedy in 1963.

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10. Mao Tse Tung introduced Communism.

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