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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9.2 for the textbook Speakout Intermediate - Workbook with authors Antonia Clare, J. J. Wilson and Stephanie Dimond-Bayir from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Rewrite sentences 1-6 using passives. Do not say who did the action.
  2. Listen and check. What happens to the pronunciation of the auxiliary verbs are, were, has(n't) been and have been? Listen again and repeat.

Answer

a)

  1. The Institute's given a million euros a year.
  2. One day a cure for cancer will be discovered.
  3. The files were stolen last year.
  4. These photos were taken at the end of the war.
  5. The missing people have been found.
  6. The paintings are cleaned once a year.

b)

The auxiliary verbs are, were, has(n't) been and have been are contracted (said in a shortened way).