Question

Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple Active or Passive Voice.

Some newsletters (1) ..... (to begin) during the Renaissance1 in Europe.

Merchants (2) ..... (to spread) handwritten documents that (3) ..... (to describe) the la test wars, economic news, and human-interest stories. After

Gutenberg (4) ..... (to invent) the printing press in the fifteenth century,

printed newsletters (5) ..... (to appear) in the late 1400s. Many “newssheets”

in the 16th century even (6) ..... (to have) illustrations.

Despite their popularity in Europe, newspapers (7) ..... (to have) a rocky

start in colonial America. A newspaper (8) ..... (to call) The Public Occurences (9) ..... (to print) in Boston in 1690. Perhaps it (10) ..... (to document) things too publicly. The publisher (11) ..... (to arrest) by the authorities and all copies of the newspaper (12) ..... (to destroy).

Remember, this (13) ..... (to be) before the Bill of Rights* (14) .....

(to make) freedom of the press a basic right in America.

Work in pairs. Use the prompts to make sentences​

Answer 1

Ответ:

1) were begun

2) spread

3) were described

4) invented

5) were appeared

6) were had

7) were had

8) was called

9) was printed

10) was documented

11) arrested

12) were destroyed

13) was was

14) was made