Lesson 7

Exercises

Change these sentences into passive sentences. Use the by-phrase only if it is necessary.

  1. People grow rice in India.
  1. Mr. Lee grows rice in China.
  1. Do people speak Spanish in Bolivia?
  1. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
  1. Somebody published Romeo and Juliet in 1496.
  1. Someone told me a secret.
  1. People closed the highway.
  1. Somebody sells hammers at the hardware store.
  1. Charles Dickens wrote Great Expectations.
  1. Has anyone ever cheated you?