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Passive Exercises

The document contains examples of using passive voice in different contexts related to art. It provides sentences to complete using the passive form, questions to formulate in the passive voice, and a paragraph to fill in with passive forms of verbs. It also includes active sentences to transform into the passive voice, omitting the agent where possible. The document serves as a practice for using the passive voice in situations involving art, museums, exhibitions, and related topics.

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Passive Exercises

The document contains examples of using passive voice in different contexts related to art. It provides sentences to complete using the passive form, questions to formulate in the passive voice, and a paragraph to fill in with passive forms of verbs. It also includes active sentences to transform into the passive voice, omitting the agent where possible. The document serves as a practice for using the passive voice in situations involving art, museums, exhibitions, and related topics.

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1) Complete the sentences using the correct passive form of the verb in bracket.

Picassos Guernica ________________ (move) to Spain from New York in 1981.


This painting can _______________ (interpret) in a number of different ways.
The sculpture might ______________ (take) out of the country immediately after last
Tuesdays theft.
Only two of the paintings in this exhibition ____________________ (not sell) yet.
The art museum ________________ (restore) at the moment.
The restoration work ____________________ (complete) next month.
By the time the gallery reported the theft, the painting _________________ (sell).

2) Write questions using the correct passive form.

Where / last years exhibition / hold / ?


What / paintbrushes / make of / ?
Why / this photograph / not frame / yet / ?
Who / Sunflowers / paint by / ?
The winner of the art competition / announce / next week / ?
These pens / use / by anybody / at the moment / ?

3) Complete the text with the correct passive form of the verb in brackets.
Graffiti __________________ (consider) by some to be an art form. Others, however,
feel that those who paint on buildings and walls, which then have to ____________
(clean) at the taxpayers expense, are vandals and should ______________ (punish). In
London last week five graffiti artists _____________ (send) to prison for damaging
public property. For over two years, trains and stations ________________ (cover) in
their work. During the trial, the court _________________ (tell) that, previously, two of
the artists _________________ (employ) by two London councils as art tutors. They
________________ (describe) in court as inspirational in their work with young people,
but this did not save them from prison. Next week, photos of their work
_____________ (show) in a New York art gallery, where visitors _____________ (ask)
to consider whether the men are artists or criminals.

4) Transform the sentences from active to passive. Omit the agent where possible.

Somebody sold the sculpture for 2.000.000


The Queen will attend the opening of the exhibition
They might display our work in the school entrance.
Banksy must have painted this mural.
Police have arrested a 30-year-old woman in connection with the art theft.
A journalist is interviewing the artist for a magazine article.

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