Answer — Exercise 2
9.2·Speakout Intermediate - Workbook
Question
- Rewrite sentences 1-6 using passives. Do not say who did the action.
- 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)
- The Institute's given a million euros a year.
- One day a cure for cancer will be discovered.
- The files were stolen last year.
- These photos were taken at the end of the war.
- The missing people have been found.
- 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).