Active and Passive Voice

Question 1

Tennis is played by Aaliyah.

Convert to Active Voice

Answer 1

Aaliyah plays tennis.

Question 2

Active or Passive?

The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci.

Answer 2

Passive Voice

Question 3

A soda is being drunk by Elizabeth.

Convert to Active Voice

Answer 3

Elizabeth drinks a soda.

Question 4

Active or Passive?

Rivers have been polluted by factories.

Answer 4

Passive Voice

Question 5

Active or Passive?

Charles painted the house the color of the sea.

Answer 5

Active Voice

Question 6

Active or Passive?

The bank was robbed by the Joker.

Answer 6

Passive Voice

Question 7

The bridge can be built.

Convert to Passive Voice

Answer 7

They say they can build the bridge.

Question 8

Active or Passive?

The students finished the project yesterday.

Answer 8

Active Voice

Question 9

Active or Passive?

Christopher Columbus was a bad guy.

Answer 9

Active Voice

Question 10

Active or Passive?

People use the internet for research, recreation, and business.

Answer 10

Active Voice

Question 11

Active or Passive?

Which materials are used by the artist to make this sculpture?

Answer 11

Passive Voice

Question 12

Active or Passive?

Were the pictures taken yesterday?

Answer 12

Passive Voice

Question 13

Definition of a Noun

Answer 13

a person, place or thing.

Question 14

Definition of a Verb

Answer 14

a word or a combination of words that indicates an action or a state of being or condition. A verb is the part of a sentence that tells us what the subject performs.

Question 15

Definition of an Adjective

Answer 15

words that are used to describe or modify nouns or pronouns

Question 16

Definition of an Adverb

Answer 16

a word that describes a verb, an adjective, another adverb, or even a whole sentence

Question 17

Definition of an Active Voice

Answer 17

active voice is a type of a clause or sentence in which a subject performs an action and expresses it through its representative verb. When a subject performs an action directly, it is in an active voice. It then uses a transitive verb to show the action.

Question 18

Definition of a Passive Voice

Answer 18

a type of a clause or sentence in which an action, or an object of a sentence, is emphasized rather than its subject.

Question 19

Identify the subject, action, and object:

Somebody stole my laptop

Then determine if this sentence is active or passive.

Answer 19

Subject: somebody
Action/Verb: stole
Object: my laptop

Active

Question 20

When is a passive voice used?

Answer 20

• When the person who does the action is unknown, unimportant, or obvious from the context.
• To make more polite or formal statements.
• When the action is more important than the agent, as in processes, instructions, events, reports, headlines, news items, and advertisements.
• To put emphasis on the person who does the action.

Question 21

The sentences given below are very similar. Identify whether they are passive or active.

1. I eat an apple.
2. An apple is eaten by me.

Answer 21

1. Active

2. Passive

Question 22

Convert the sentence from active to passive or from passive to active:

The winning tomato at the county fair was grown by Jimmy Smith.

Answer 22

Jimmy Smith grew the winning tomato at the county fair.

Explanation: This is a conversion from passive to active

Question 23

Convert the sentence from active to passive or from passive to active:

The author’s father wrote the introduction to the book.

Answer 23

The introduction to the book was written by the author’s father.

Explanation: This is a conversion from active to passive