Cover of the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.2 - Truth or myth? for the textbook Speakout Advanced - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs. Which phrases in italics would be better in the passive? Change them as appropriate.

Answer

  1. has been passed on
  2. OK / It isn't known
  3. it has been attributed
  4. OK
  5. The fear of the number thirteen is known
  6. thirteen is considered
  7. OK / This superstition can be seen
  8. the number thirteen is omitted
  9. the house between number 12 and 14 is given the number 12½
  10. the unlucky number four is often omitted