Passive Voice Exercises with Fake News Vocabulary

Instructions: Below you will find sentences in the active voice. Rewrite each one in the passive voice. 1. People spread fake news online.

• Fake news is spread online (by people).

• Fake news are spreading online by people.

• People are being spread by fake news online.

• Online is spread by fake news people.

Instructions: Below you will find sentences in the active voice. Rewrite each one in the passive voice.

• Misinformation was accidentally shared (by her).

• She was accidentally shared misinformation.

• Misinformation accidentally shared her.

• She accidentally was shared by misinformation.

Instruções: Abaixo você encontrará frases na voz ativa. Reescreva cada uma na voz passiva.

Instructions: Below you will find sentences in the active voice. Rewrite each one in the passive voice. 4. Someone created a hoax to scare people.

• A hoax was created to scare people (by someone).

• Someone was created by a hoax to scare people.

• People were scared to create a hoax by someone.

• A hoax scared people to be created by someone.

Instructions: Below you will find sentences in the active voice. Rewrite each one in the passive voice. 5. Many people believed the conspiracy theory.

• The conspiracy theory was believed by many people.

• Many people was believed by the conspiracy theory.

• The conspiracy theory believed many people.

• The conspiracy theory is believed by many people.

Instructions: Below you will find sentences in the active voice. Rewrite each one in the passive voice. 6. Websites use clickbait to get more clicks.

• Clickbait is used to get more clicks (by websites).

• Websites are used by clickbait to get more clicks.

• Clickbait uses websites to get more clicks.

• More clicks are used by websites to get clickbait.

Instructions: Below you will find sentences in the active voice. Rewrite each one in the passive voice. 7. Governments used propaganda during the war.

• Propaganda was used during the war (by governments).

• Propaganda used governments during the war.

• During the war, propaganda governments were used.

• Governments were used by propaganda during the war.

Instructions: Below you will find sentences in the active voice. Rewrite each one in the passive voice. 8. The journalist showed bias in the article.

Instructions: Below you will find sentences in the active voice. Rewrite each one in the passive voice. 9. Experts did the fact-checking.

• The fact-checking was done by experts.

• Experts was done by the fact-checking.

• The experts was fact-checked by done.

• Fact-checking did by the experts.

Someone posted a deepfake video. Passive Voice: _________________________________