Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 8

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.2 - Buy, buy, buy for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at audioscript 2.15 on page 170 and underline all the examples of the passive that you can find.
  2. Read the rule of form in the Active grammar box and complete the passive sentences below with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

Answer

a)

  • the sculpture was sold at auction
  • the winning bid was made ...
  • one of the helmets ... was found ... and bought ...
  • huge sums of money have been paid ...
  • $1,300,000 was paid ...
  • one of Michael Jackson's gloves ... was bought ...
  • it will now be displayed ...
  • a clump of Elvis Presley's hair ... was cut
  • it was sold
  • it was bought by a fan

b)

  1. is being cleaned
  2. was found
  3. was being displayed
  4. have been bought
  5. have been published
  6. will be paid
  7. is going to be opened
  8. can be bought