Exercise passives
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The document provides examples of verbs in the past participle and passive voice. It lists 16 sentences with blanks to be filled in using the past participle of given verbs. The verbs provided are then used to complete the sentences in the passive voice, with the subjects receiving the action rather than performing it. For example, "Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare" and "San Francisco was destroyed by an earthquake in 1906".
Exercise passives
- 1. Write the past participle of each verb: Now, fill in the blanks using the passive voice: 1. Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare. 2. San Francisco _____________________ by an earthquake in 1906. was destroyed 3. More traffic accidents ___________________ by drunk drivers than anything else. are caused 4. The Cathedral of Granada ___________________ by Diego de Siloé. was designed write cause design destroy
- 2. 5. The Mona Lisa ___________________ by Leonardo da Vinci. was painted 6. Rice ___________________ by Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese. is eaten 7. The light bulb ___________________ by Edison. was invented 8. The Law of Gravity ___________________ by Newton. was discovered 9. The moons of Jupiter ___________________ by Galileo. were first seen 10. Everest ___________________ by Sir Edmund Hillary. was climbed discover invent climb paint eat first see
- 3. 11. Lung cancer ___________________ by smoking. is caused 12. JFK ___________________ by Lee Harvey Oswald. was assassinated 13. The pyramids ___________________ for the pharaohs. were made 14. The Eiffel Tower ___________________ in the 19th century. was built 15. Jonh ___________________ a present. was given 16. Cars ______________________ in America, Japan, and Korea. are manufactured manufacture build make cause give assassinate