Quiz on Active-Passive Voice

Transform the following sentence to Passive Voice: The donkey kicks the hay.

• The hay were kicked by the donkey

• The hay is kicked by the donkey

• The donkey was kicked by the hay

• The hay had been kicked by the donkey

Answer explanation

Active:

The donkey kicks the hay

Subject + V1 + Object

Passive:

The hay was kicked by the donkey

Object + Relating Verb of Past Tense + V3 + by + Subject

Transform the following sentence to Passive Voice: I completed the assignment.

• The assignment had been completed by me

• The assignment was completed by me

• The assignment has been completed by me

• The assignment was been completed by me

Transform the following sentence to Passive Voice: Who pushed the gate open?

• The gate was pushed open

• Who opened the gate?

• The gate was pushed open by whom?

• The gate opened by whom?

Transform the following sentence to Passive Voice: Nobody wants the answer.

• The answer is want by nobody.

• The answer is wanted by nobody.

• Nobody has wanted the answer.

• The answer wants nobody.

Transform the following sentence to Passive Voice: Open the door.

• Let open the door

• Let the door be opened

• Let me open the door

• May I open the door?

Change the following sentence into Passive Voice: I am wandering near the sea

• The sea is being wandered near to by me.

• Intransitive sentence

• Wandering is being done by me near the sea

• The sea nearby is wandered by me.

Transform the following sentence into Passive Voice: The names of the boys are James and Joseph.

• James and Joseph are the names of the boys

• James and Joseph being the names of the boys

• The names are James and Joseph

• Intransitive

Transform the following sentence into Passive Voice: I found the cat outside the garden.

• Intransitive

• The cat was found by me outside the garden.

• The cat I found outside the garden is this.

• The cat was found outside the garden

Transform the following sentence to Passive Voice: We never know what will happen.

• What will happen is known to us

• What happens is not known to us.

• What will happen is not known to us.

• What will happen is never known to us.

Transform the following sentence to Passive Voice: Do what I tell you.

• Do what you have been told

• What has been told must be done

• Intransitive

• Let what has been told to you be done.