Cover of the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.2 - Crime and punishment for the textbook Speakout Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Antonia Clare and J. J. Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete the tables with the passive form.
  2. Read the sentences in Exercise 4A again. Which sentences say who does the actions: the active or the passive? Complete the rule below.
  3. Find five more examples of the passive in the article.

Answer

a)

  • present passive → A man is caught stealing books from a bookshop.
  • past passive → The man was sent to read stories.

b)

  • The active sentences say who does the actions.
  • Rules → to be

c)

  • Two boys were caught writing graffiti ...
  • ... the boys were told to do community service.
  • A shoplifter was caught shoplifting ...
  • She was sent to speak to shop owners.
  • .... he was told to spend several weeks painting local schools ...