Passive Voice

A gap-filling exercise by Papadamos Konstantinos

Fill in all the gaps, then press "Check" to check your answers. Use the "Hint" button to get a free letter if an answer is giving you trouble. You can also click on the "[?]" button to get a clue. Note that you will lose points if you ask for hints or clues!
Complete the sentences using the Passive Voice.

1. They will read out the names of the winners in tomorrow's show.
The names .
2. The shop assistant offered a refund to the customer.
A refund .
The customer was offered a refund.
3. Look! someone has broken the vase.
Look! The vase .
4. The police are investigating the murder.
The murder .
5. Candidates must write their answers in ink.
Answers
6. The judge shouldn't have postponed the hearing.
The hearing .
7. They said that he was innocent.
He was .
8. They make all of the components in foreign factories.
All of the components .
9. Picasso painted Guernica in 1937.
Guernica .
10. The city authorities sold the land three years ago.
The land .

Let's learn:
1. refund = επιστροφή χρημάτων
2. investigate = ερευνώ
3. components = εξαρτήματα
4. the city authorities = οι δημοτικές αρχές