{"id":826,"date":"2015-09-17T12:38:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T12:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2015-09-17T12:38:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T12:38:34","slug":"active-or-passive-voice-worksheet-for-grade-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/active-or-passive-voice-worksheet-for-grade-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Active or passive voice worksheet for grade 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State whether the following sentences are in the active or passive voice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. She was praised for her stupendous performance.<\/p>\n<p>2. They are eager to leave.<\/p>\n<p>3. I have been informed of the development.<\/p>\n<p>4. She did a stupid thing.<\/p>\n<p>5. I am interested in this offer.<\/p>\n<p>6. We are waiting for the bus.<\/p>\n<p>7. The walls were being painted.<\/p>\n<p>8. She has always wanted to become an actor.<\/p>\n<p>9. We were shown some old portraits.<\/p>\n<p>10. The hunter shot at the tiger.<\/p>\n<p>11. The thieves have been caught.<\/p>\n<p>12. I have planted some roses in the garden.<\/p>\n<p>13. We have not heard anything from them.<\/p>\n<p>14. I have been waiting to hear from them.<\/p>\n<p>15. She has already been told.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>1. She <strong>was praised<\/strong> for her stupendous performance. (was praised \u2013 passive voice)<\/p>\n<p>2. They <strong>are<\/strong> eager to leave. (are \u2013 active voice)<\/p>\n<p>3. I <strong>have been informed<\/strong> of the development. (have been informed \u2013 passive voice)<\/p>\n<p>4. She <strong>did<\/strong> a stupid thing. (did \u2013 active voice)<\/p>\n<p>5. I <strong>am interested<\/strong> in this offer. (am interested \u2013 passive voice)<\/p>\n<p>6. We <strong>are waiting<\/strong> for the bus. (are waiting \u2013 active voice)<\/p>\n<p>7. The walls <strong>were being painted<\/strong>. (were being painted \u2013 passive voice)<\/p>\n<p>8. She <strong>has always wanted<\/strong> to become an actor. (has wanted \u2013 active voice)<\/p>\n<p>9. We <strong>were shown<\/strong> some old portraits. (were shown \u2013 passive voice)<\/p>\n<p>10. The hunter<strong> shot<\/strong> at the tiger. (shot \u2013 active voice)<\/p>\n<p>11. The thieves <strong>have been caught<\/strong>. (have been caught \u2013 passive voice)<\/p>\n<p>12. I <strong>have planted<\/strong> some roses in the garden. (have planted \u2013 active voice)<\/p>\n<p>13. We <strong>have not heard<\/strong> anything from them. (have not heard \u2013 active voice)<\/p>\n<p>14. I <strong>have been waiting<\/strong> to hear from them. (have been waiting \u2013 active voice)<\/p>\n<p>15. She<strong> has already been told<\/strong>. (has been told \u2013 passive voice)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State whether the following sentences are in the active or passive voice. 1. She was praised for her stupendous performance. 2. They are eager to leave. 3. I have been informed of the development.&#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":[19],"tags":[164],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-exercises","tag-active-or-passive-voice-worksheet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","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=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}