UDP Winter 2016

Passive Voice
Directions: Transform the following sentences into the passive voice.

1. The chemical that the cellulose company emitted contaminated the river. —
2. The engineers placed the explosives inside the tunnel. —
3. Chile produces %30 of the global supply of copper. —
4. Mining companies extract lithium from the salt flats in the Atacama desert. —
5. Students and professors conduct experiments in the metallurgical laboratory. —
6. Chilean voters elected Gabriel Boric to be the president. —
7. Geologists recently discovered a large deposit of gold in the Chilean Andes. —
8. The company constructed the mine in 2004. —
9. The company produced 30,000 tons of copper concentrate last year. —
10. The company reduced electricity costs at the mine by installing a solar power
plant. —
11. The Chilean Health Ministry has vaccinated 80% of the Chilean population. —
12. During the pandemic, universities implemented a system of online education.
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13. A German scientist invested the Pfizer vaccine. —
14. The pharmaceutical company called Pfizer tested the vaccine in the summer of
2020. —