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Exercise-21
Complete the following lines with appropriate passive form of verbs given in brackets:
1.When the whale……………. (kill) .The blubber ……….. (strip) off and boiled down. Great quantity of oil………….. (Produce) which can………… (make) into food for human Consumption.
2. The life of the common man………… (change) by mineral oil. Because it burns well. it…………. (use) as fuel. Because it burns brightly. It ……….(consume) in illumination. Many homes …………..(illuminate) with oil burning lamps.
3.The creatures to become oil should………….. (imprison) between the layers of rocks for a long time. The statement that oil originated in the sea …………. (confirm) by a glance at a map showing chief oil fields of the world. The rocks in which oil………. (find) are of sea origin too.
4. At the beginning of the wedding ceremony the bride and bridegroom …………. (garland) by each other. Welcome songs …………. (sing) by the bride’s friends. Dinner party. puja and chanting of mantras ………….(arrange) by the bride’s parents. Huge amount of money ……. (spend) on feast. decorations and dowry.
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Exercise-22
Complete the following lines with appropriate passive form of verbs given in brackets:
1.In the olden days the things of daily use ………… (make) by the people with their own hands. Now-a-days things………….. (prepare) in our own factories. In the past when there were no factories in our country even small things of daily use ……………. (get) from foreign countries. These days bicycles. cars, railway engines. aeroplanes and ships ……………. (manufacture) by us.
2.Florence Nightingale spent years visiting hospital after hospital. Every bed in the hospital …………….(visit) by her and no patient ………… (neglect). She …………. (call) the ‘Lady with the Lamp’.
3. When Napoleon returned home and opened the door. He………. (shock) to see what had happened. To his utter dismay. all his papers …………. (reduce) to a heap of ashes. His little dog ………….(see) standing there. He understood that all that mischief ………….. (do) by his dog. Diamond.
4. I know a man-eater which …………. (kill) in Garhwal district several years ago. The whole place ………… (terrify) for seven years and 125 human victims …………….. (eat) up by it. Every method to kill the panther…………… (try) but in vain.
5. I ……….. (congratulate) by all my friends and guests. (photograph) with my friends. Also a birthday party ………….. (arrange) . Thai day can’t …………. (forget).
6.In a hospital the patients (look after ) by a nurse . They ………..(sponge) every day. Food and medicines ……….(give) to them at the fixed time . Each and every information about the patient ……………(write) in the health care chart .
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