4 A storm destroyed three houses in the neighbourhood. Rewrite the sentence in the passive form.

Решение:

• 1. The original sentence is in the active voice: "A storm destroyed three houses in the neighbourhood."
• 2. The object ("three houses") becomes the subject in the passive voice.
• 3. The verb "destroyed" is in the simple past tense. In the passive voice, we use the past tense of "to be" (was/were) + the past participle of the main verb.
• 4. The past participle of "destroy" is "destroyed".
• 5. Since "three houses" is plural, we use "were".
• 6. The prepositional phrase "in the neighbourhood" remains in the sentence.
• 7. The agent "by a storm" can be included or omitted.
• 8. Therefore, the passive form is: "Three houses in the neighbourhood were destroyed by a storm."

Ответ: Three houses in the neighbourhood were destroyed by a storm.