Correct Errors in Verb Voice

Change to passive:

I didn’t fix the problem.

• The problem has not been fixed by me

• The problem was fixed by me.

• The problem wasn’t fixed by me.

• The problem was being fixed by me.

• The problem had not been fixed by me.

Change to passive:

John’s mother raised him in a small town.

• John was raised in a small town by his mother.

• John has been raised by his mother in a small town.

• John was being raised in a small town by his mother.

• The mother was raised in a small town.

• John was raised by his mother in a small town.

Change to active:

We were being watched by a strange man.

• A strange man was being watched by us.

• We have been watching a strange man.

• A strange man has been watching us.

• A strange man was watching us.

Change it to passive:

Tokyo will hold the Olympics in 2020.

• You can’t change it because it is an intransitive verb.

• The Olympics will be held in Tokyo in 2020.

• The Olympics shall be helping in Tokyo in 2020.

• The Olympics are being held in Tokyo en 2020.

Change to passive:

They could not have made the mistake.

• The mistake have been made by them.

• The mistake could not had being made by them.

• The mistake could not have been made by him.

• The mistake could not have been made by them.

He should not have been asked to pay.

• Passive voice.

• Active voice.

• It has an intransitive verb.

• It has two objects.

Inflation has risen again.

• It can’t be passive because it has a transitive verb.

• It is in passive voice.

• It can’t be passive because it has a intransitive verb.

• It can’t be passive because it has two objects.

Change to passive voice:

The man showed us many gifts.

• Many gifts were shown to us.

• We have been shown many gifts.

• Many gifts have been shown to us by the man.

• We were with the man who showed us many gifts.

What it is a intransitive verb?

• A main verb.

• A verb that talks about something abstract.

• A verb that have many objects.

• A verb that can not have an object.

Which was is true?

• An active sentence with two objects will often have two passive forms.

• An active sentence with two objects can’t have two passive forms.

• That passive is found in all the main tenses.

• The passive can’t be found in all main tenses.