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English Grammar Exercises for A2 – The passive (present simple and past simple)

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1. Complete the sentences below with the present simple passive form of the verbs in brackets.

  • 1)
    Millions of mobile phones every year. (sell)
  • 2)
    American football very much in the UK. (not play)
  • 3)
    tablets in your school? (use)
  • 4)
    Most crimes in big cities. (commit)
  • 5)
    Rubber trees in cold countries. (not grow)
  • 6)
    Samsung televisions in Korea? (make)

2. Make the active sentences passive. Include the word by.

  • 1)
    Millions of people watched the 2014 World Cup Final on TV.
  • The 2014 World Cup Final was watched by millions of people on TV.
  • 2)
    Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.
  • 3)
    Rafa Nadal didn’t win the watch.
  • 4)
    Robots made that car.
  • 5)
    Did Suzanne Collins write the Hunger Games books?
  • 6)
    Peter Jackson directed the Hobbit films.

3. Put the words below in the correct order. (Remember where to put the adverb.)

  • 1)
    satnavs. / are / Phones / used as / sometimes.
  • 2)
    Was / Bob Dylan? / Make you feel my love / first / by / sung
  • 3)
    invented / The wheel / about 5,000 years ago. / probably / was
  • 4)
    quickly / was / The suspect / arrested.
  • 5)
    the missing jewellery / ever / found? / Was

4. Complete the fact file below with the past simple passive form of the verbs in brackets.

  • – The first computer 1) (invent) by Charles Babbage in the early 19th century. It 2) (not power) by electricity – it was mechanical.
  • – The first electronic digital computer 3) (build) in 1943 in Britain. It 4) (call) ‘Colossus’ and it 5) (use) for decoding enemy messages in the war.
  • – Businesses began to use computers in the 1950s, but computers 6) (not sell) in shops until the early 1970s.
  • – The first desktop computers 7) (develop) in the late 1970s.
  • – Internet access via a modem 8) (add) in the 1990s, but wireless access 9) (not add) to most computers until about 2000.
  • – For the first time, in 2015, more tablets and smartphones 10) (sell) than laptops and desktops. Will computers eventually disappear from our homes and schools?

5. Rewrite the active sentences in the passive. Make any necessary changes. Use the present simple or the past simple.

  • 1)
    Every year, my school holds a competition for ‘best inventor’.
  • 2)
    They give you materials and ask you to design something.
  • 3)
    My school encouraged me to take part this year.
  • 4)
    A group of five teachers make the final decision.
  • 5)
    They test the inventions for usefulness.
  • 6)
    They give a prize for the best invention.
  • 7)
    They gave the prize for the ‘best inventor’ to my friend Jo.
  • 8)
    They present the prize at the end of school ceremony.

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