English Language

Active and Passive Voice

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Active and Passive Voice Questions

Multiple choice

Directions: Change the voice from active to passive and select the correct option.

Your father was watering the fields.

  1. The fields are being watered by your father.

  2. The fields were being watered by your father.

  3. The fields had been being watered by your father.

  4. The fields was being watered by your father.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

While changing the voice, we interchange the respective places of the subject and the object. In passive voice, we always use the third form of the verb with the helping verb. Case of past simple tense. In such cases, we use 'was/were' with the third form of the verb.

Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the correct passive or active voice of the given sentence.

I saw him conducting the rehearsal.

  1. He was seen conducting the rehearsal.

  2. I saw the rehearsal to be conducted by him.

  3. He was seen by me to conduct the rehearsal.

  4. I saw the rehearsal being conducted by him.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The given statement is in active voice. To convert it into passive voice, the indirect object 'rehearsal' is changed into the subject. Since the active voice is in the continuous verb form, we use the auxiliary 'being'.

Multiple choice

Directions: Change the voice of the given sentence.

Who taught her such things?

  1. Who was she taught such things by?

  2. She was taught such things by who?

  3. By whom she was taught such things?

  4. By who was she taught such things?
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

While changing the voice, we interchange the respective places of the subject and the object. In passive voice, we always use the third form of the verb with the helping verb. Case of past simple tense. In such cases, we use 'was/were' with the third form of the verb.

Multiple choice

Directions: Change the voice of the given sentence.

They are building a house next door to our school

  1. Next door to our school a house is being built by them.

  2. Next door to our school is being built a house by them.

  3. A house next door to our school is being built by them.

  4. A house is being built by them next door to our school.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

While changing the voice, we interchange the respective places of the subject and the object. In passive voice, we always use the third form of the verb with the helping verb. Case of past simple tense. In such cases, we use 'is/are' with the third form of the verb.

Multiple choice

Directions: Change the voice of the given sentence.

His pocket has been picked.

  1. They have his pocket picked.

  2. Picking has been done to his pocket.

  3. Picked has been his pocket.

  4. Someone has picked his pocket.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

While changing the voice, we interchange the respective places of the subject and the object. In passive voice, we always use the third form of the verb with the helping verb. Case of past simple tense. In such cases, we use 'has/have' with the third form of the verb.

Multiple choice

Directions: Change the voice of the given sentence.

You must look into this matter.

  1. This matter has been looked into by you.

  2. This matter may be looked into by you.

  3. This matter should be looked into by you.

  4. This matter in looked by you.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The modal verb 'must' in the active voice changes to 'should' in the passive voice. 'You must look into this matter' becomes 'This matter should be looked into by you.' The passive construction shifts focus from the doer to the action while maintaining the obligation. 'Must' typically becomes 'should' or 'must' depending on context, but 'should' is more common in passive transformations.

Multiple choice

Directions: Change the voice of the given sentence.

He was arrested on a charge of theft, but for lack of evidence, he was released.

  1. He was arrested on a charge of theft, but was released for lack of evidence.

  2. The police arrested him on a charge of theft, but for lack of evidence he was released.

  3. The police arrested him on a charge of theft, but for lack of evidence released him.

  4. None of these
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

In voice change, active verbs with specific agents (like 'the police') need to be made explicit. The first clause 'He was arrested...' is passive and needs conversion to 'The police arrested him...' The second clause is already passive 'he was released' and stays that way. The agent 'for lack of evidence' doesn't need a doer as it's an abstract cause.

Multiple choice

Directions: Change the voice of the given sentence.

I saw him conducting the rehearsal.

  1. He was seen conducting the rehearsal.

  2. I saw the rehearsal to be conducted by him.

  3. He was seen by me to conduct the rehearsal.

  4. I saw the rehearsal being conducted by him.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

With verbs of perception like 'see', 'hear', 'watch', the object in active voice becomes the subject in passive, and the following verb takes being + V3 form. 'I saw him conducting' (active) becomes 'He was seen conducting...' OR the clause can be made passive: 'I saw the rehearsal being conducted by him.' Option D correctly applies passive transformation to the clause 'him conducting the rehearsal'.

Multiple choice

Directions: Change the voice of the given sentence.

He teaches us Grammar.

  1. Grammar is taught to us by him.

  2. We are being taught Grammar by him

  3. Grammar is being taught by him.

  4. We are taught Grammar by him.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

While changing the voice, we interchange the respective places of the subject and the object. In passive voice, we always use the third form of the verb with the helping verb. Case of past simple tense. In such cases, we use 'is/are' with the third form of the verb.

Multiple choice

Directions: Change the voice of the given sentence.

What do you want?

  1. What is wanted by you?

  2. What was wanted by you?

  3. What did you want?

  4. What is being wanted by you?
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

While changing the voice, we interchange the respective places of the subject and the object. In passive voice, we always use the third form of the verb with the helping verb. Case of past simple tense. In such cases, we use 'is/are' with the third form of the verb.

Multiple choice

Directions: Change the voice of the given sentence.

The teacher appointed him a monitor.

  1. He was appointed monitor by the teacher.

  2. The teacher was appointed by the monitor.

  3. Monitor was appointed him by the teacher.

  4. He was monitor appointed by the teacher.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

While changing the voice, we interchange the respective places of the subject and the object. In passive voice, we always use the third form of the verb with the helping verb. Case of past simple tense. In such cases, we use 'was/were' with the third form of the verb.