INTERMEDIATE 1 ENGLISH COURSE

PASSIVE VOICE

Write the past participle of each verb under the verb: paint, painted

paint write discover invent build climb manufacture kill cause grow eat

first see make shoot assassinate destroy

Fill in the blanks using the passive voice:

(1) Romeo and Juliet ______________________Shakespeare.

(2) San Francisco _____________________ an earthquake in 1906.

(3) More traffic accidents ___________________ drunk drivers than anything

else.

(4) The Sistine Chapel ___________________ Michelangelo.

(5) The Mona Lisa ___________________ Leonardo da Vinci.

(6) Rice ___________________ Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese.

(7) The light bulb ___________________ Edison.

(8) The Law of Gravity ___________________ Newton.

(9) The moons of Jupiter ___________________ Galileo.

(10) Everest ___________________ Sir Edmund Hillary.

(11) Lung cancer ___________________ smoking.

(12) JFK ___________________ Lee Harvey Oswald.

(13) The pyramids ___________________ the pharaohs.

(14) The Eiffel Tower ___________________ in the 19th century.

(15) The Sphinx’s nose ___________________ Napoleon.

(16) Cars ______________________ in America, Japan, and Korea.

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