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PASSIVE VOICE Review 03 (Author-Bouabdellah)




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�Technicum Si-Tarek Of Relizane
� Third Year Students
� Technological Streams 2003/2004
� Structure Practice: The Passive Voice

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1. ���� They gave the oldest councillor the freedom of the city.
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2.����� They denied access to the secret documents to all but a few.
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3.����� Someone showed the child how to use the telephone.
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4.����� They declared him persona non grata and allowed him only forty-eight hours to leave the country.
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5.����� They gave him artificial respiration.
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6.����� Why didn't they offer him the job?
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7.����� Didn't they promise you a rise in salary at the beginning of the year?
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8.����� Someone left him a legacy of �10,000.
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9.����� When he looked at the stamps, he found they had sold him forgeries.
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10.��� What did they pay you for doing the job?
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11.���� Someone should tell him never to do that again.
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12.��� They asked you to meet me here at 11 o'clock, not half past.
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13.��� Will someone send me the details?
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14.��� We shall send you the goods as soon as they are available.
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15.��� Someone must teach that boy a lesson!
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16.��� We must give slum-clearance priority over the building of new properties.
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