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Passive (all tenses)

Grammar · B2 · 4 printable sheets, each with an answer key.

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  1. Sheet 1 · 40 minPassive voice: the car-free city experimentPassives in every tense in a news story about a city that banned cars, then write your own local news report.Free
  2. Sheet 2 · 35 minPassive reporting verbs: rumours in the tech worldIt is said that… / He is believed to have… in tech-industry gossip, with key-word transformations and a gossip column to write.
  3. Sheet 3 · 35 minPassive: how a smartphone is made and recycledDescribe the life cycle of a phone with present, past, perfect and modal passives, then explain a process of your choice.
  4. Sheet 4 · 35 minPassive with modals: restoring an old museumModal and perfect passives (must be checked, should have been repaired) in a museum restoration project.