Passive Voice Quiz

What is the passive voice?

• The same as the active voice

• The opposite of the active voice

• A type of pronoun

• A type of adverb

When do we use the passive voice?

• When the action is not important

• When the object can do the action itself

• When the person doing the action is obvious

• When the action is more important than the person who does it

How can you easily change the active voice to the passive voice?

• By using adjectives

• By using BE plus a past participle

• By using pronouns

• By using adverbs

What is the grammatical structure of the passive voice?

• BE plus a past participle

• Subject plus verb

• Adjective plus noun

• Adverb plus verb

Which of the following is a correct passive sentence?

• This bottle of ketchup has already BEEN opened.

• I have BEEN tired for weeks.

• Apple sells thousands of iPhones every day.

• John Taylor Thomas built this bridge in 1732.

Why do we use the passive voice when the action is more important?

• To hide information

• To emphasize the person who does the action

• To emphasize the action over the person who does it

• To confuse the listener

Which tense does not have a natural passive form?

• Present perfect continuous

• Past simple

• Future perfect

• Past perfect continuous

What is an intransitive verb?

• A verb that is always in the passive voice

• A verb that does not have an object

• A verb that is always in the active voice

• A verb that always has an object

Which sentence is in the passive voice?

• 100 chocolate cakes were sold on Sunday.

• Everybody loves chocolate.

• I arrived late.

• The police arrested Bill last night.

What is the agent in a passive sentence?

• The object of the sentence

• The adverb in the sentence

• The subject of the sentence

• The person or thing that performs the action