Back to index


Write these sentences in the passive in your notebook.
Then check your answers by clicking on the "Answers" button to see all the correct ones.
To calculate your marks, just add up the number of correct answers (there are 10 questions).



a) Industrialisation caused many changes in the labour force.


b) New factories that manufactured cloth took away many women's source of income.


c) Skilled labourers lost their jobs as new machines replaced them.
(You can write one or both sentences in the passive in this example).


d) They often recruited not only men, but also women and children.


e) The reason is that women and children had to accept very low wages.


f) Soon critics attacked this exploitation.


g) We can still find the use of child labour in third-world countries.


h) They considered normal a working day of 12 or even 14 hours, six days a week.


i) We can also see these working conditions in third-world countries nowadays.


j) European companies make mobile phones using raw materials which children mine in Africa.
(You can write one or both of these sentences in the passive).