American EMPOWER B2 | Unit 6B Passive Voice (page 145)

Complete the sentence with the correct passive form of the verb in parentheses.

1 The local people are angry because these old trees ______________ (cut) down next week.

Complete the sentence with the correct passive form of the verb in parentheses.

2 The first email between two organizations ____________ (send) in 1971.

Complete the sentence with the correct passive form of the verb in parentheses.

3 Currently, English ____________ (use) as an official language in almost 60 countries.

Complete the sentence with the correct passive form of the verb in parentheses.

4 I promise that you ____________ (inform) as soon as your bags arrive.

Complete the sentence with the correct passive form of the verb in parentheses.

5 The thief ____________ (not / catch) yet, but I'm sure they'll catch him soon.

Complete the sentence with the correct passive form of the verb in parentheses.

6 By the time we arrived, all the best seats ____________ (already / take), so we had to sit all the way in the back.

Rewrite the sentences in the passive.

1 I wrote that report.

That report __________.

Rewrite the sentences in the passive.

2 My sister told us about this restaurant.

We __________.

Rewrite the sentences in the passive.

3 We can only dream of the technology of 2100.

The technology of 2100 __________.

Rewrite the sentences in the passive.

4 Someone had already built this bridge 1,000 years ago.

This bridge __________.