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Date: _____/ _____ / ______ Teacher:

PASSIVE VOICE - PRESENT AND PAST

A- Rewrite the sentences using the Passive Voice.

1. People send millions of emails each day.

Millions
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2. School children often visit this museum .
This
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3. Somebody cleans our classroom every day.
Our
____________________________________________________________.
4. They sell hundreds of hamburgers every day.
Hundreds
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5. The police arrest many drunk drivers every year.
Many
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6. An Afghan photographer won the 2012 Pulitzer News
Photography Prize.
The 2012
_______________________________________________________.
7. Soldiers killed many people during the war.
_______________________________________________________________
.
8. Government forces killed many civilians during the revolution.
_______________________________________________________________
.
9. They held the first Rock in Rio festival in 1985.
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.
10. Somebody vandalized the school last night.
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.
11. They invited the students to attend the debate.
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.

B- Underline the correct option.

 1. Tons of fish are / is / was caught by fisherman every day.
2. Forests are destroy / destroyed / destroying by forest fires
each year.
3. Many people is kill / are killed / is killed by drunk driver each
year.
4. The Oscar for Best Actress was win / was won / is winning by
Meryl Streep.
5. Facebook is using / is used / uses by millions of people.
6. The telephone lines was repaired / were repaired / were repair
yesterday.

Answer key

1. of emails are sent every day.

2. museum is often visited by schoolchildren
3. classroom is cleaned every day.
4. of hamburgers are sold every day.
5. drunk drivers are arrested every year.
6. Pulitzer News Photography Prize was won by an Afghan
photographer.
7. Many people were killed during the war.
8. Many civilians were killed by government forces during the
revolution.
9. The first Rock in Rio festival was held in 1985.
10.The school was vandalized last night.
11.The students were invited to attend the debate.

1. are
2. destroyed
3. are killed
4. was won
5. is used
6. were repaired.