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Interactions 2 Writing, 4/e
Cheryl Pavlik
Margaret Keenan Segal

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Using the Passive Voice

Complete the following paragraph with appropriate active or passive forms of the verbs in parentheses.



1

Venus (name) after the Roman goddess of beauty.
2

Venus (know) as the evening and morning star, but it (not be) a star at all.
3

It (be) actually a planet.
4

In the morning and the evening, sunlight (reflect) off Venus so that it (glow) like a star.
5

Venus (cover) by a thick layer of clouds.
6

Scientists (not know) very much about Venus until a spacecraft (land) there in 1972.
7

It (send) information to Earth until it (destroy) by the heat.