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WorksheetsPASSIVE VOICE
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 34mins
Past participle is used in
Past Perfect
Passive Voice
Passive Voice and Perfect Tenses
Reported Speech
You can use Passive Voice to:
speak about who was important in the sentence.
change the focus of your sentence.
change the meaning of the sentence.
write formal and informal speeches.
In the passive voice:
The object is more important than the subject.
The action is the most important.
You must pay attention to the complement.
You have to conjugate the main verb.
Why should you use the Passive Voice?
You don´t want to say who or what did the action.
You don´t know who did the action.
The object is the most important part of the sentence.
all of them.
When you use the word BY in Passive voice, it means
Who or what did the action.
The action is the most important.
The verb must be conjugated.
The complement is the main part of the sentence.
Past participle is used in
Past Perfect
Passive Voice
Passive Voice and Perfect Tenses
Reported Speech
You can use Passive Voice to:
speak about who was important in the sentence.
change the focus of your sentence.
change the meaning of the sentence.
write formal and informal speeches.
This is an active sentence:
We must to study.
Study must be by us.
The children eat the cake.
The cake must be eaten by children.
In the passive voice:
The object is more important than the subject.
The action is the most important.
You must pay attention to the complement.
You have to conjugate the main verb.
Why should you use the Passive Voice?
You don´t want to say who or what did the action.
You don´t know who did the action.
The object is the most important part of the sentence.
all of them.
When do people use passive voice?
Journalists can´t say who did something or they don´t know who did it.
Scientific reports or legal documents, the information has to be objective.
A and B are true.
A passive voice sentence
The cake was eaten by the childen.
The children ate the cake.
The cake be eaten by them.
The children were eating the cake.
When you use the word BY in Passive voice, it means
Who or what did the action.
The action is the most important.
The verb must be conjugated.
The complement is the main part of the sentence.
The first step to work Passive voice is:
Move the object to become the new subject of the sentence.
identify the subject, the verb and the object in the active.
Add the past participle of the main verb.
Subject of the action sentence.
What is the second step for working in Passive Voice
Conjugate the verb BE , to the real tense
What is the verb tense in the Active Sentence
Identify the subject, verb and object.
Move the object to become the new subject of the sentence.
What is the third step to identify Passive voice:
Move the object to become the new subject of the sentence.
Subject of the active sentence.
what is the verbal tense in the active sentence.
Add the past participle of the main verb after BE.
What is the fourth step for working passive voice
What is the verbal tense in the active sentence.
Subject of the active sentence.
Add the past participle of the main verb.
Conjugate the verb TO BE to the real tense.
What is the fifth step to work in Passive voice?
Add the past participle of the main verb after TO BE.
identify the subject, verb and object in the active.
Move the object to become the new subject of the sentence.
Subject of the active sentence.
what is the last step to identify passive voice:
What is the verb tense in the active sentence
conjugate the verb to be
identify the subject of the active sentence
Add the past participle of the main verb
Butter (a) from milk. (make)
This house (a) 100 years ago. (build)
Stamps (a) in a post office. (sell)
The telephone (a) by Alexander Bell in 1876. (invent)
"The Harry Potter books" (a) by J. K . Rowling. (write)
Two people (a) to hospital yesterday. (take)
The hotel room (a) every day. (clean)
This tablet (a) to me on my last birthday. (give)
English (a) all over the world. (speak)
The car (a) by my dad last Saturday. (drive)
What is the important rule in Passive Voice?
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V4
A cinema is a place where films ___________________
shown
be shown
are shown
is shown
The house ______________ in 1935.
is built
was built
was being built
has been built
Madame Tussauds ________________ by many tourists every year.
is being visited
has been visited
is visited
was visited
The animals ______ at the zoo.
shouldn't feed
shouldn't be fed
is going to feed
must feed
Tom's ipod_____________________. Therefore, he is crying.
has been stolen
steals
stole
was stolen
The house ________________ next week.
was demolished
is going to be demolished
will demolish
is demolished
The video________________ on Facebook by Alex four days ago.
was posted
has been posted
posted
is posted
Helmets __________________ while riding a motorbike
is worn
must be worn
shouldn't be worn
wore
I ___________________ to the party, but I didn't want to go.
am invited
invited
was invited
have been invited
Did you read the newspaper? A lof of money _________________ in the robbery yesterday.
was stealing
steals
stole
was stolen
Many accidents _______________________ by dangerous driving.
are caused
is causing
was causing
caused
Cheese __________________ from milk.
was making
made
is made
is making
You can't see the house from the road. It ______________ by trees.
is surrounding
surrounded
is surrounded
was surrounded
Has John ... by Mary?
was help
helped
been helped
was been helping
Mr Smith..... (interview) for the job at the moment
Is being interviewed
Was being interviewed
Have been interviewed
Were being interviewed
Four people ..... in a train crash
have been killed
killed
have killed
was killed
Two men tried to sell a painting that ......
had stolen
was stolen
had been stolen
is stolen
The car ______________ by William tomorrow
has been repaired
is repaired
will be repaired
was repaired
. "What a beautiful shirt you're wearing!"
"Thank you. It ............... especially for me by my mother."
A. is made
B. has made
C. made
D. was made
Since the 1970s, computers ________ at a low enough cost to allow individuals to own a personal computer.
will be produced
have been produced
are produced
were produced
Have you ________ by a dog?
bite
bit
ever been bitten
ever been bit
________ by your father two months ago?
Did that book write
Did that book written
Was that book be writing
Was that book written
No one has used this computer for a long time.
This computer has been used for a long time.
This computer has not been used for a long time.
This computer has not used for a long time.
This computer was not used for a long time ago.
They translated some old documents last week. The passive voice is (a)
My brother will fix the broken bicycle tomorrow.
(a)
Change into passive Voice. "Felix cleans the room everyday."
(a)
Andrea Hirata wrote the novel “Laskar Pelangi”. The Passive voice is (a)
The shoes are washed by Dani every two weeks. The active is (a)
I saw a car accident. Four people ________ (take) to the hospital immediately.
took
taken
was taken
were taken
The suspects _____________ (arrest) by the police yesterday.
arrested
was arrested
were arrested
were arresting
