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Exercises

1) Find and correct the mistakes if any.
1. Don’t bring the article today. It will be being typed only tomorrow.

2. The book which was written last month is discussing a lot. It has been written a lot of articles about.
3. What new buildings have been built in your town since I was there?

4. Have you seen him? Has he been changed much?

5. The building was collapsed during the earthquake.

6. When I came, an experiment was been holding in the lab.

7. Do you know that this house was belonged to Mr. Brown?

8. Do you know that you are following?

9. The South Pole was discovered by Amundsen in 1912.

10. I hope this journal can find at the library.

2) Use the correct tenses and passive forms of the verbs in brackets.

                                                 Fishy Tales
Mermaids (see) by sailors for centuries. The basis of all mermaid myths
(suppose) to be a creature called a Manatee: a kind of walrus! Mermaids used
(to show) in funfairs until recently. It all began in 1817 when a “mermaid”
(buy) for £6000 by a sailor in the South Pacific. She eventually (sell) to the great
circus owner Barnum. She (exhibit) in 1842 as “The Fee-jee Mermaid”. It (say)
that she earned Barnum $1000 a week! The thousands who saw this mermaid
(must/disappoint). She cleverly (make) by a Japanese fisherman. A monkey's
head delicately (sew) to the tail of a large salmon. The job so skilfully (do)
that the joint between the fish and the monkey was invisible. Real imagination
(must/require) to see this revolving creature as a beautiful mermaid combing
her golden hair!

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