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Grammar: the Passive Voice
Lexical topic: House. Flat

Ex. 1. Read the text. Put the verbs in the proper Passive forms. Explain why you have preferred one form to another.

The Tower of London (to build) by William the Conqueror in 1078 as a castle and palace. Since that time it (to expand) to its present size, and (to use) as an armoury, a zoo, a royal mint, a prison and a museum. At the time when it was a prison a lot of people (to lock) in the Tower. Anne Boleyn, Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth the First (to shut) there, too. Spies (to imprison) in the Tower during the World Wars. Many convicted (publicly/to execute) on the Tower Hill. They (to behead) with the block and axe, which (to keep) and (to show) in the Tower of Armoury now.