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PASSIVE VOICE Present and Past Simple.

Part 2/3.
Rewrite these sentences in PASSIVE VOICE (present or past).

1. The airline sent out luggage to Australia by mistake.

2. Farmers grow soy in Argentina.

3. People export Spanish tortilla to the US.

4. El Greco painted The Burial of the Count of Orgaz.

5. You don’t find penguins at the North Pole.

6. Columbus didn’t discover American in 1491.

7. They draw some paintings.

8. My uncle sold the bicycle.

9. The child broke all the plates in the cupboard.

10. She didn’t find the book.

ANSWER KEY:
Exercise 1. Our luggage was sent by them to Australia by mistake / Soy is grown by farmers in Argentina / Spanish tortilla is exported by them to
the US / The Burial of the Count of Orgaz was painted by El Greco / Penguins aren’t found at the North Pole / America wasn’t discovered by
Columbus in 1491 / Some paintings were drawn by them / The bicycle was sold by my uncle / All the plates in the cupboard were broken by the
child / The book wasn’t found by her

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