Passive voice review

Write the following in active voice: I am walking to your house right now.

• I am walked to your house right now.

• Your house is walking to me right now.

• I was walking to your house right now.

• No change needed

In passive voice, the most significant component of the sentence is the...

• subject

• object

What do you require in order to construct passive voice?

• verb in -ing form

• verb to be

• verb in past participle

• subject or agent

When is the passive voice employed?

• When an action is executed by an individual

• When the identity of the actor remains ambiguous

• When the agent of the action is obscured

• When the identity of the doer is deemed insignificant

• When the focus is intended to be on the action rather than the actor

1.       The passive voice can be employed across all tenses.

• True.

• False.

The passive voice is employed when the agent performing an action is either unidentified or deemed inconsequential.

• True

• False

The symbol of The Olympics Games ______________ (craft) in 1912.

Limestone is the main ingredient of cement. First, it ... from the ground.

• is extracted

• is procured

• was extracted

• was procured

In passive voice, the focus is on the...

• subject

• action

Is the following passive sentence correct?

"David was received the scholarship from his school last month."

• No, it should be "David was being received the scholarship from his school last month."

• Yes, the sentence is correct.
• No, the sentence is not correct.
• The sentence is correct but needs a different verb.