Grammar in context 1
The passive 1
Rewrite these passive sentences as active sentences. 1 Motion capture technology is used by VFX studios.
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Match the halves to make sentences. 1 Over thirty million small businesses … 2 Right now, the Internet is being used … 3 Fifteen Nobel Prizes® for literature … 4 Most of the world’s steel … 5 This version of the gadget hasn’t been sold … 6 Nowadays many companies are being affected … a by millions of users around the world. b were created in the United States last year. c is produced in China. d by global economic instability. e in European markets yet. f have been awarded to France. Put the words in order to make sentences in the passive. 1 designed / was / Who / by / the / invention / ?
2 The travel industry is being transformed by virtual reality.
3 Our lives have been changed by computers.
4 Blade Runner 2049 was directed by Denis Villeneuve.
5 Many jobs will be replaced by robots in the future.
6 These products won’t be sold in high street shops.
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Rewrite the sentences in the passive, including the agent where necessary. 1 They have found a new fault in the phone design. 2 Someone developed those gadgets too fast. 3 Anna Yeo is writing the product specifications. 4 The company has just launched a new product. 5 The Canadian journalist won’t write the review. 6 Did someone test those products first?
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2 of / Billions / be / space / will / on / dollars / exploration / spent / .
3 made / many / those / How / were / of / watches / ?
4 engineers / manuals / The / have / written / been / by / .
6 Read the article. Find and correct 12 mistakes. Grammar challenge Sports and gaming are revolutionised by 5G!
5 are / Which / apps / in / language / written / programming / ?
6 product / discontinued / the / Why / be / will / ?
The future of gaming, and everything else, will be change forever by 5G. Right now, around the world, current networks are became up to 20 times faster – that’s up to 20 Gigabits per second (Gbps). Portable data streaming will been dramatically improved, especially for things that use a lot of data, like high-quality video and audio. With 5G, we are already seen changes in how footballers, basketball players and racing car drivers train with this technology. In training environments, Virtual Reality goggles are strapped to their heads for simulate real-time reactions. 5G is real time with zero lag, so the brain are tricked into thinking that you’re actually there. The benefits are felt at players when they compete in real life. In addition, 5G works well in densely populated environments, so a video is uploading instantaneously. That includes Extended Reality (XR), which mix real and virtual environments. Imagine you’re sit in a virtual room with friends from different cities across the world. It would been as if you were in a basketball stadium together, and were have the same experience at the same time.
Complete the passive sentences with the
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correct form of the verbs given. 1 The automatic dishwasher
(invent) by Josephine
Cochran in 1886. 2 Most LED bulbs
(make)
in China.
3 I
(not give) a prize last
year, but hopefully I’ll be luckier next year! 4 A report just
(write) on what went
wrong with the gadget.
5 Colonies for humans (not build) on Mars in the near future. 6 At this very moment, online videos
(watch) by hundreds of
thousands of people.
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