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Passive forms - exercise 3 - make sentences

Use the jumbled sentences to make the passive voice.

Example: (the telephone/invent/A. G. Bell)

The telephone was invented by A. G. Bell.

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(cities/block/cars) In the future .

(thousands of planes/produce) Each year in the USA.

(penicillin/discover/Fleming) in 1928.

(education/should not pay/parents)

(tanks/use/armies) Since World War I all over the world.

(a car park/build/the local council) just now.

(two banks/rob) Before the robbers were arrested .

(this shop/close) on Sundays.

(the islands/inhabit/the Irish) until 1953.

(the roof/repair/carpenters) when it caught fire.

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Passive forms exercises and grammar rules on passive sentences.

For pre-intermediate - advanced students of English.

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