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
Look at audioscript 2.15 on page 170 and underline all the examples of the passive that you can find.
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 ...