Lesson 181 - Grammar insights - Passive voice

Identify the passive voice sentence

• Mary has baked the cake

• The cake was baked by Mary

• Mary baked the cake

• Mary was baking the cake

Convert the active voice sentence 'John eats apples' to passive voice.

• Apples are being eaten.

• Apples are eaten by John.

• John is eating apples.

• Apples are being eaten by John.

Choose the correct auxiliary verb for the passive voice sentence: The book ________ read by the students. (present tense)

• is

• are

• have

• do

Differentiate the tenses in passive voice: 'The house is being painted' - Which tense is used in this sentence?

• Present Perfect

• Present Continuous

• Future Continuous

• Past Continuous

Identify the passive voice sentence

• Sarah had written the letter yesterday.

• Sarah wrote the letter yesterday.

• The letter was written by Sarah yesterday.

• Yesterday, Sarah wrote the letter.

Convert the active voice sentence 'She will cook dinner' to passive voice.

• Dinner will be cooked by her.

• Dinner will cook by her.

• Dinner will be cooking by her.

• She will be cooking dinner.

Choose the correct auxiliary verb for the passive voice sentence: The car ________ washed by the mechanic. (simple past tense)

• is

• are

• was

• were

Differentiate the tenses in passive voice: 'The movie was being watched by everyone' - Which tense is used in this sentence?

• Future continuous tense

• Past continuous tense

• Past perfect tense

• Present continuous tense

Identify the passive voice sentence

• The team will submit the report tomorrow.

• Tomorrow, the team will submit the report.

• The report will submit by the team tomorrow.

• The report will be submitted by the team tomorrow.

Convert the active voice sentence 'They are building a new house' to passive voice.

• They are building a new house

• Them building a new house

• A new house is being built by them.

• A new house was built by them