Passive Voice review

Is this sentence active or passive?

Jessica teaches English.

• Active

• Passive

Is this sentence active or passive?

English is taught by Jessica.

• Active

• Passive

In this sentence, who is doing the action?

English is taught by Jessica.

• English

• Jessica

In this sentence, who is receiving the action?

English is taught by Jessica.

• English

• Jessica

(select all that apply)

The passive voice is used when ...

• we don't know who did the action

• who did the action is not important

• who did the action is obvious

• the action itself is more important than the person who did the action

• we don't want to take blame for something

To form the passive voice, we need to use the helping verb "be" and the past participle, for example, "is created", "has been considered", "will be done".

• TRUE

• FALSE

How can we turn this sentence into a passive voice sentence:

Steve Jobs created the iPhone.

How can we turn this sentence into a passive voice sentence:

I eat a bagel for breakfast.

How can we turn this into a passive voice sentence:

Canada has allowed vaccinated international visitors to visit.

An intransitive verb cannot be used in the passive form. For example, we cannot say:

A headache has been had by me.

• TRUE

• FALSE