{"id":600,"date":"2015-03-11T06:58:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T06:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2015-03-11T06:58:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T06:58:38","slug":"passive-voice-exercise-simple-past-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/passive-voice-exercise-simple-past-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"Passive voice exercise | Simple past tense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sentences are given in the active voice. Change them into the passive voice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All of these sentences are in the simple past tense. When we convert an active sentence in the simple past tense into the passive voice, we use the verb <strong>\u2018was\/were + past participle\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Was\u2019<\/strong> is used when the subject is a singular noun or pronoun. <strong>\u2018Were\u2019<\/strong> is used when the subject is a plural noun or pronoun.<\/p>\n<p>The pronoun \u2018I\u2019 requires the verb \u2018was\u2019. The pronoun \u2018you\u2019 requires the verb \u2018were\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>1. Megha knitted a sweater.<\/p>\n<p>2. My mother made a cake.<\/p>\n<p>3. I bought some apples.<\/p>\n<p>4. Aditya won the first prize.<\/p>\n<p>5. Maya solved the puzzle quickly.<\/p>\n<p>6. The cat drank the milk.<\/p>\n<p>7. She finished the work before lunchtime.<\/p>\n<p>8. Edwin broke another window yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>9. My grandfather built this house in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>10. The earthquake destroyed the town.<\/p>\n<h3>Answers<\/h3>\n<p>1. A sweater <strong>was knitted<\/strong> by Megha.<\/p>\n<p>2. A cake<strong> was made<\/strong> by my mother.<\/p>\n<p>3. Some apples <strong>were bought<\/strong> by me.<\/p>\n<p>4. The first prize <strong>was won<\/strong> by Aditya.<\/p>\n<p>5. The puzzle <strong>was quickly solved<\/strong> by Maya.<\/p>\n<p>6. The milk <strong>was drunk<\/strong> by the cat.<\/p>\n<p>7. The work <strong>was finished<\/strong> by her before lunchtime.<\/p>\n<p>8. Another window <strong>was broken<\/strong> by Edwin yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>9. This house<strong> was built<\/strong> by my grandfather in 1960.<\/p>\n<p>10. The town <strong>was destroyed<\/strong> by the earthquake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentences are given in the active voice. Change them into the passive voice. Notes All of these sentences are in the simple past tense. When we convert an active sentence in the simple past&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cbse-grammar-worksheets-2","tag-class-6-passive-voice-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}