Rewrite the sentences in the passive. Do not include the agent.
1 Companies use aluminium to make bicycles these days because it is lighter than other metals.
Aluminium
2 People collect coins from countries around the world, particularly if they are rare.
Coins
3 Criminals have stolen copper from many buildings in London because of its value.
Copper
4 A miner found gold in Australia in 1851.
Gold
5 People often give leather items as a third wedding anniversary present.
Leather items
6 People won’t need paper to write on in the future.
Paper
7 In the past, people built their houses with local stone.
In the past, houses
Taras Shevchenko
Artist, poet, national bard of Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko was born on 9 March, 1814 in Moryntsi, Kiev gubernia. He was born a serf. When he was a teenager he became an orphan, and grew up in poverty. When he was 14, his owner, Engelhardt took him to serve as a houseboy. And Taras travelled with him to Vilnus and to St Petersburg. In Vilnus Taras for the first time heard different languages, Lithuanian, Russian and Polish and there he saw people whom their masters made free. When Engelhardt noticed the boys skiils in painting he apprenticed him to the painter Shiriayev for four years.
Shevchenko was an outstanding poet and a highly accomplished artist. There are 835 works written by him, although 270 are known to have been lost. His collection also contains over 150 portraits, 42 self-portraits. There are many landscapes, watercolours and etchings. The best is "A Dream" , "Haidamaki" , "Katerina" .
Объяснение:
2 Mum, may I go out and play with friends? I have _already_ done the washing up.
A: Do you know where Jennifer is?
B: Yes, I have usually seen her.
4 Everyone has heard the bang. But nobody knows what has happened _yet_
5 My sister is _still_ at university because she has decided to get her Master's degree.
6 I have _never_ gone to the dentist before. I'm feeling nervous.
7 Have you _ever_ been to Rome? The Colosseum is worth seeing.