2.8 passive

 

INVENTIONS grammar

A)  Put the following sentences in the passive voice :

1)     Christopher Cockerell invented the hovercraft in 1952.

 

2)     More and more teenagers  use cell phones today.

 

3)     Maybe they can choose a new manager.

 

4)     I think the school will buy these new laptops.

 

5)     Students use google every week at school.

 

6)     They have just elected a new president.

 

B)   Use these elements to write sentences in the passive voice:

-        telescope – 1609

 

-         bikini – 1946

 

-        the net  - today

 

C)   Chose the correct verb and complete with the passive voice :

 

begin      finish     shoot     inaugurate       build     discover    paint    invent

 

Penicillin _____________________ by Alexander Fleming.

The Parthenon ___________________ in 447 BCE and __________________ in 432 BCE.

Matches ____________________________ in 1827

President Lincoln ______________________ by John Wilkes Booth.

The Mona Lisa ______________________ by Leonardo da Vinci.

The Whitehouse _____________________________ between 1792 and 1800.

President Obama ___________________________ in 2009