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Passive Voice Exercise - Jokes

This document contains a series of jokes and puns involving filling in blanks with missing verbs. It discusses snails being served in a restaurant, fairy tales beginning with "Once upon a time", being detained at the office, finding occupant ants in houses, a choice between a politician's unused brain and an engineer's brain for surgery, being asked hundreds of times to get married by one's parents, having one's hair cut like a doughnut with a hole on top, having one's appendix removed and fingers amputated in prison, and a warden saying the prisoner is trying to escape bit by bit.

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Passive Voice Exercise - Jokes

This document contains a series of jokes and puns involving filling in blanks with missing verbs. It discusses snails being served in a restaurant, fairy tales beginning with "Once upon a time", being detained at the office, finding occupant ants in houses, a choice between a politician's unused brain and an engineer's brain for surgery, being asked hundreds of times to get married by one's parents, having one's hair cut like a doughnut with a hole on top, having one's appendix removed and fingers amputated in prison, and a warden saying the prisoner is trying to escape bit by bit.

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1.

➢ We’re famous for snails in this restaurant, sir.


➢ I know. I …………………………………………………………………
……………………..………. (serve) by one now.
2.
➢ Mum, do all fairy tales begin with “Once upon a time”?
➢ No, darling. Some start with: “Sorry I’m so late, darling, I
………………………. ……………………………………………………
…………………… (detain) at the office.
3.
➢ What did your father say when you ……………………………
…………………………
………………………………………….. (take) to prison?
➢ Hello, son.

4.
➢ What kind of ants ……………………………………………………
………………….… (find)
in houses?
➢ I don’t know.
➢ OccupANTS!

5.
A man went to a hospital for a new brain. He ……………………
………………………… (give) a choice between two brains – an
engineer’s for £20,000 or a politician’s for £500,000.
➢ Does that mean the politician’s brain is much better?
➢ Not exactly, (said the doctor). The politician’s brain ………
…………………….. never ……………………………………………
……………… (use).

6.
➢ I ………………………………………………………………………
(ask) to get married hundreds of times.
➢ Oh! Who by?
➢ My parent.

HAVE/HAD SOMETHING DONE


7.
➢ How would you like to ………………………………………………
………… (your hair/cut)?
➢ Just like my dad’s. You know – like a doughnut.
➢ What do you mean?
➢ Leave a hole on the top.

8.
One week after he arrived in prison, Walter Gidon ……………
………………………..
…………………….…………………………… (his
appendix/remove). Soon after that he ………………………..……
…………………………………………….... (two fingers/amputate)
after an accident in the prison kitchen. The prison boss said
to one of the wardens:
➢ Keep an eye on him. I think he’s trying to escape bit by
bit.

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