A sentence has been given in Active\/Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive\/Active voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An example is given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. The teacher punished the boy for lying.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n a) The boy punished by the teacher for lying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n b) The boy was punished by the teacher for lying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n c) The boy had been punished by the teacher for lying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n d) The teacher had been punishing the boy for lying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Answer: option b)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Explanation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When the active verb is in the simple past tense<\/strong>, we make the passive form by putting was\/were<\/strong> before the past participle form of the verb. Thus \u2018punished\u2019<\/strong> becomes \u2018was\/were punished\u2019<\/strong> in the passive voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 The shopkeeper lowered the prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n a) The prices lowered the shopkeeper. 2 One must keep one\u2019s promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n a) One\u2019s promise are kept. 3 The government has not approved the new drug for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n a) The government approval for the sale of the new drug has not been. 4 They have published all the details of the invention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n a) All the details of the invention have been published by them. 5 He teaches us grammar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n a) Grammar was taught to us by him. 6 The manager could not accept the union leader\u2019s proposals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n a) The union leader\u2019s proposals could not be accepted by the manager. 7 Prepare yourself for the worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n a) You be prepared for the worst. 8 The mother asked the boy to switch off the lights and go to bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n a) The boy asked to switch off the lights and go to bed. 9 It is impossible to do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n a) Doing this is impossible. 10 We must take care of all living species on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n a) All living species on Earth are taken care of by us. b; 2. d; 3. b; 4. a; 5. b; 6. a; 7. c; 8. b; 9. d; 10. b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A sentence has been given in Active\/Passive Voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive\/Active voice. An example is given below. 1. The teacher...<\/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":[31],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-exercises","tag-active-and-passive-voice-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76870,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/76870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Active and passive voice exercise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
b) The prices were lowered by the shopkeeper.
c) Down went the prices.
d) The shopkeeper got down the prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
b) One\u2019s promise must kept.
c) One\u2019s promises were kept.
d) One\u2019s promises must be kept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
b) The new drug has not been approved for sale by the government.
c) For the sale of the new drug we have not been given the approval.
d) The new drug was not approved by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
b) The publication of the details of invention was done by them.
c) All the detail\u2019s have been invented by the publishers.
d) All the inventions have been detailed by them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
b) We are taught grammar by him.
c) Grammar will be taught to us by him.
d) We were teached grammar by him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
b) The union leader\u2019s proposals were not accepted by the manager.
c) The union leader\u2019s proposals will not be accepted by the manager.
d) The union leader\u2019s proposals would not be accepted by the manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
b) The worst should be prepared by yourself.
c) Be prepared for the worst.
d) For the worst, preparation should be made by you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
b) The boy was asked to switch off the lights and go to bed.
c) The boy had asked to switch off the lights and go to bed.
d) The mother had asked the boy to switch off the lights and go to bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
b) This is impossible to be done.
c) This must not be done.
d) This can\u2019t be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
b) All living species on Earth must be taken care of by us.
c) All living species on Earth had been taken care of by us.
d) All living species on Earth will be taken care of by us.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAnswers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n