26. Put the verbs in brackets into active or passive. Reuters News Agency John Grey ... (work) for the Reuters News Agency for ten years. He describes the company. Reuters is one of the world's biggest news agencies. It ... (supply) news and stock

Exercises 26. Put the verbs in brackets into active or passive.
Reuters News Agency
John Grey ... (work) for the Reuters News Agency for ten years. He describes the company.

Reuters is one of the world's biggest news agencies. It ... (supply) news and stock market prices to media and financial institutions all over the world. It ... (start) by Paul Reuter in 1849 with pigeons! Reuter ... (be born) in 1816 in Germany. During the 1840s he ... (employ) as a bank clerk in Berlin. German bankers ... (need) to know the prices on the Paris stock exchange, but the French telegraph system only went as far as Belgium. From there the information ... (send) to Germany by train. The journey ... (take) nine hours. The same information ... (carry) by Paul Reuter's pigeons in only two hours!
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