Passive voice

Passive voice

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Task no. 1

Uzupełnij drugie zdanie zachowując znaczenie zdania wyjściowego

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They have cancelled my doctor’s appointment again.

My doctor’s appointment

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The nurse was changing my dad’s bandage when we walked in.

My dad’s bandage

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Companies will use less plastic packaging in the future.

Less plastic packaging

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We need protein in our diet.

Protein

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They built the hospital about ten years ago.

The hospital

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Task no. 2

Uzupełnij test wstawiając czasowniki z nawiasów w odpowiednim czasie w stronie biernej.

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Penicillin

In 1928, Penicillin ¹

(discover) by Alexander Fleming by chance.

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He found the substance growing on a dish that ²

(leave) in a corner of his laboratory.

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He observed that bacteria in the dish ³

(kill) by the new substance, and he realised it could be used to treat infections.

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Fleming experimented with penicillin for a decade, but in the end, he handed over his research to scientists Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain so that they could develop a way to mass-produce it. Penicillin ⁴

(produce) in large quantities since the early 1940s.

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Today, however, it ⁵

(prescribe) less and less by doctors as many bacteria have become immune to it.