2.- Put the sentences into the past simple passive.

a) Etienne Lenoir made the first motor car in Belgium.

b) How many paintings did the police found?

c) I didn’t paint Las Meninas.

d) Lennon and McCartney wrote the song Yesterday.

e) The government ordered them to build a new bridge.

f) When did Cook discover Australia?

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Present Passive Voice Climatic Changes

The present passive voice is used when the focus is on the action being performed on the subject, rather than the subject itself performing the action.

In the given text, we can identify various present passive voice sentences that describe climatic changes. Let's break down the text and identify the instances of the present passive voice.

1. "Climate is a weather a certain place has over a long period of time."
This sentence uses the present simple tense in the passive voice. The subject "Climate" is receiving the action "is" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "has".

2. "Climate has a very important influence on plants, animals, and humans and is different in different parts of the world."
Similar to the previous sentence, this sentence also uses the present simple tense in the passive voice. The subject "Climate" is receiving the action "has" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "is different".

3. "But recently the climate has changed a lot, especially in Europe."
This sentence also uses the present perfect tense in the passive voice. The subject "the climate" is receiving the action "has changed" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "recently".

4. "Scientists think that the reason is the greenhouse effect."
This sentence uses the present simple tense in the passive voice. The subject "the reason" is receiving the action "is" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "think".

5. "It is caused by carbon dioxide."
This sentence uses the present simple tense in the passive voice. The subject "It" is receiving the action "is caused" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "by".

6. "Carbon dioxide is produced when we burn things."
This sentence uses the present simple tense in the passive voice. The subject "Carbon dioxide" is receiving the action "is produced" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "when we burn things".

7. "Also, people and animals breathe in oxygen."
This sentence uses the present simple tense in the passive voice. The subject "people and animals" is receiving the action "breathe" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "in".

8. "But in the last few years, people have cut down and burned big areas of rainforest."
This sentence uses the present perfect tense in the passive voice. The subject "people" is receiving the action "have cut down and burned" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "in the last few years".

9. "This means that there are fewer trees and more carbon dioxide."
This sentence uses the present simple tense in the passive voice. The subject "there" is receiving the action "are" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "meaning".

10. "This gas in the atmosphere works like glass in a greenhouse."
This sentence uses the present simple tense in the passive voice. The subject "this gas" is receiving the action "works" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "in the atmosphere".

11. "It lets heat get in, but it doesn't let much heat get out."
This sentence uses the present simple tense in the passive voice. The subject "It" is receiving the action "lets" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "get in".

12. "So the atmosphere becomes warmer."
This sentence uses the present simple tense in the passive voice. The subject "the atmosphere" is receiving the action "becomes" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "warmer".

13. "Greenhouse effect is sometimes called global warming."
This sentence uses the present simple tense in the passive voice. The subject "Greenhouse effect" is receiving the action "is called" and the action is being performed on it by the verb "sometimes".

By identifying these examples of present passive voice sentences, we can understand how the climate changes are described and how the greenhouse effect and global warming are explained in the text.

Миссис Грин и ее (to be) дома. правильная форма глагола для использования в этом предложении будет "b. is".

Обоснование: Формы глагола "to be" в настоящем времени для единственного числа третьего лица (she, he, it) следует использовать форму "is". В этом предложении, так как речь идет о Миссис Грин (она), это третье лицо единственного числа, поэтому правильная форма будет "is". Варианты "a. am" и "c. has" неправильные, так как форма "am" используется для первого лица единственного числа (я), а форма "has" - для третьего лица единственного числа в глаголе "to have".