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A: What an amazing house!
B: It
by Jason Norman. You know, the rock singer.
I know him, yes.
The problem is, he's never there, and it keeps
3.4 Rewrite the underlined part of the sentence using a passive form where possible. If it is not possible,
write 'No passive:
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When fteuovitesthugotogiss the main presentation at the conference he was delighted and wrote
immediately to accept.
Hugo vas inziked, to gizze
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During our military training they made us run five kilometres before breakfast.

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Ella felt that the pay and conditions at Trimco were unsatisfactory, and many of her colleagues seemed to
support her.

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We wanted lulia to come to the party.

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I still have only a very vague memory of the explosion. I remember someone asking me to leave the building
because there was a gas leak, but not much after that.

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Although at first the children were frightened by Mr Demir's strictness, after a few weeks most of the
children in the class came to like him.

7
They caught him trying to break into an expensive sports car.

Someone heard her remark that Ben was too old for the job.
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Henry performed badly in the last match, and we need him to play better this week

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People expect over 100.000 demonstrators to march through the capital in protest against the government's
decision to go to war.

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