III. Change Active to Passive. Start with underlined words. 1) Thomas Edison demonstrated the first electric light in 1879. 2) Edgar Allan Poe first wrote detective stories as a genre of fiction. 3) The people of France presented the Statue of Liberty to the people of America as a gift. 4) In 1941, science fiction writer Isaac Azimov first used the word "robotics" to describe the technology of robots.

1) Thomas Edison demonstrated the first electric light in 1879.

The first electric light was demonstrated by Thomas Edison in 1879.

2) Edgar Allan Poe first wrote detective stories as a genre of fiction.

Detective stories were first written by Edgar Allan Poe as a genre of fiction

3)The people of France presented the Statue of Liberty to the people of America as a gift.

The Statue of Liberty was presented to the people of America as a gift by the people of France.

4) In 1941, science fiction writer Isaac Azimov first used the word "robotics" to describe the technology of robots.

In 1941, The word "robotics" was first used by the science fiction writer Isaac Azimov to describe the technology of robots.