Consolidation:	The passive voice

1	Find the past participles (don’t include ‘been’). These are the main verbs.
2	Match a main verb  with each of the gaps in the story.
3	Use the auxiliary verbs ‘has’, ‘was’, ‘be’, ‘being’ ‘will’ and ‘been’ to 	complete the missing words.
4	Insert the two adverbs (ending in ‘ly’) into the right places in the story.

This is a special news announcement.

President Merkin Muffley of the United States (1)_______________________________
President Muffley (2)______________________  by a masked gunman as he (3)______________________ to work this morning.

The President (4)________________________to the Santa Barbara Memorial Hospital in Fort Custerville. His condition (5)_______________________as serious but not life-threatening. He (6)________________________ by the country’s best doctors.

It (7)___________________that the President will make a full recovery soon.
Full details of the President’s condition (8)___________________ in a statement later this evening
has 				been 				watched		
	
was 				being				given	

was 				being				driven

was 				been				taken

is 				be					attacked	

has 				immediately			shot	

is 				closely				hoped

will 				described