Active and Passive Voice MCQ Quiz - Objective Question with Answer for Active and Passive Voice - Download Free PDF

Here the correct answer is They are building a new gallery inside the city stadium. 

Key Points

• To convert a sentence from passive voice to active voice, we need to identify the subject performing the action and make it the subject of the sentence.
• In this case, the subject is "They" and the action is "building a new gallery inside the city stadium."
• The sentence is in present continuous tense.
• 'is being built' changes to 'are building'.
• Therefore, the active voice sentence would be "They are building a new gallery inside the city stadium."
• Option 1 ("They will build a new gallery inside the city stadium") is in future tense and does not accurately reflect the present tense of the original sentence. 
• Option 2 ("They were building a new gallery inside the city stadium") is in past tense and does not accurately reflect the present tense of the original sentence. 
• Option 3 ("They have been building a new gallery inside the city stadium") is in present perfect tense and implies that the action started in the past and is still ongoing, which is not specified in the original sentence. 
• Therefore, option 4 ("They are building a new gallery inside the city stadium") is the correct answer.

Correct Sentence: They are building a new gallery inside the city stadium. 

The correct answer is '1' i.e. The work had not been done by him. .

Key Points 

• The original sentence "He had not done the work" is in the Past Perfect tense (had + past participle) and is in the active voice.
• To convert a Past Perfect active sentence to the passive voice, the structure is: Object + had + been + Past Participle of the main verb + by + Subject.
• In this sentence, the object is "the work", the main verb's past participle is "done", and the subject is "He" which becomes "by him". The negation "not" remains.
• Applying the passive structure: "The work" + "had" + "not" + "been" + "done" + "by him".

Correct passive voice: The work had not been done by him.

Additional Information 

• Option 2: "The work has not been done by him" uses the Present Perfect passive voice (has been done), which does not match the original Past Perfect tense.
• Option 3: "The work wasn't done by him" uses the Past Simple passive voice (was done), which does not match the original Past Perfect tense.
• Option 4: "The work isn't done by him" uses the Present Simple passive voice (is done), which does not match the original Past Perfect tense.

Key Points

• Passive voice structure: The object of the active voice becomes the subject in the passive voice.
• Active sentence: "They are playing cricket."
• Identify the tense: Present continuous tense.
• Passive voice of present continuous tense: is/am/are + being + past participle.
• "Cricket" is a singular noun, so we use "is being".
• "Play" becomes "played" (past participle).

Additional Information

• Option 1: "Cricket was played by them." – Incorrect; this is past simple passive.
• Option 2: "Cricket has been played by them." – Incorrect; this is present perfect passive.
• Option 4: "Cricket was being played by them." – Incorrect; this is past continuous passive.

The correct answer is '1' i.e. The boy was being beaten by them .

Key Points

• The given sentence is in the past continuous tense, which describes an action that was happening at a specific time in the past.
• To convert a sentence from active to passive voice in past continuous tense, the structure is Subject + was/were + being + past participle + by + agent.
• In this case, "The boy" is the subject, "was being beaten" is the past continuous passive form, and "by them" indicates the agent.

Correct sentence: The boy was being beaten by them.

Additional Information

• Past Simple Passive:
  • Structure: Subject + was/were + past participle + by + agent.
  • Example: The book was read by him.
  • Usage: Describes an action completed in the past.
• Present Continuous Passive:
  • Structure: Subject + am/is/are + being + past participle + by + agent.
  • Example: The cake is being baked by her.
  • Usage: Describes an action currently in progress.

Key Points

• Passive voice structure: The object of the active voice sentence becomes the subject of the passive voice sentence.
• In the active voice, the sentence is: "The crew paved the entire stretch of highway."
• To convert to passive voice: Place the object "the entire stretch of highway" at the beginning.
• Change the active verb form "paved" to "was paved" (past simple passive).
• Add the preposition "by" followed by the original subject "the crew."

Additional Information

• Option 1: "The entire stretch of highway were paving by crew" – Incorrect verb form and subject-verb agreement.
• Option 3: "The entire stretch of highway are paving by the crew" – Incorrect verb form and subject-verb agreement.
• Option 4: None of these – Indicates there are no other correct options.

The correct answer is Option 2 i.e. The authority bade the migrant leave the country.

Explanation

While converting a sentence to passive voice:

• Find the subject and object of the sentence and exchange their places; make changes in their cases as well if subject and object are pronouns.
• Here the question is given in Passive Voice so it has to be changed into Active Voice.
• If the verbs like Let, bid, help, and make are used in Active Voice followed by a Bare Infinitive and if they are used in Passive Voice then they are followed by Infinitive, not Bare Infinitive.
  • For eg. He was made to wash all the clothes by me. (Passive Voice)

                                 I made him wash all the clothes. (Active Voice)

Following the above-mentioned rule, we finally get  "The authority bade the migrant leave the country."

Mistake point

• One might feel Option 4 is the correct answer but always remember 'the verbs like Let, bid, help, and make are used in Active Voice followed by a Bare Infinitive' i.e without 'to'.

The correct answer is 'The child should be given a nourishing diet.

Key Points

• The given sentence is in the Active Voice. As per the given question we have to change the sentence into Passive Form. 
• The transformation of these kinds of sentences is:
  • The given sentence is an example of an imperative sentence.
  • The notion of the given sentence is the suggestion.
    • V₁ + Object. (Active Voice)
    • Subject (Objective case) + should + be + V3. (Passive Voice)
  • Example:
    • Help the poor. (Active Voice)
    • The poor should be helped. (Passive Voice)
  • Hence, as per the above rule, the correct answer is Option 1.
     

Correct Sentence: The child should be given a nourishing diet.

The correct answer is By whom are you being bothered?

Key Points

• When an interrogative sentence starts with the question words like what, when, where, how, or who, we use them at the starting of the sentence while changing into passive voice.
• ​Here, 'who' is the subject, which will be changed to its objective form 'whom' and would be preceded by the preposition 'by'.
• Continuous form in active voice (is + ing) changes into (is/are/am + being + V₃)
• Structure of active voice: Who + is + V(ing) + Object?
• Passive: By + subject (objective form of subject) + h.v + object + being + V3.

Additional Information 

The correct answer is option 4) i.e. Everyone was laughing at the hunchback.

• In Active Voice, a sentence emphasizes subject performing an action.
• In Passive Voice, a sentence emphasizes the action or the object of the sentence.
• The given sentence is in the passive voice and 'The hunchback' is the subject and 'everyone' is the object.
• When we convert this sentence into active voice, the subject 'The hunchback' of the passive voice becomes the object, the object 'everyone' becomes the subject.
• The passive format "was + being + V3" is used and the active format "was + ing" should be used.
• This is the active and passive voice rule for the past continuous tense.
• Hence, "Everyone was laughing at the hunchback" is the correct active voice.

• Verbs of passive format have a different set of tenses (*V3 - Past participle or Third form of the Verb) as given below in the table:
   

  TENSE	ACTIVE	PASSIVE	PASSIVE CONVERSION
  Present Simple	He plays football	am/is/are + V3	Football is played by him
  Present Continuous	He is playing football	am/is/are + being +V3	Football is being played by him
  Present Perfect	He has played football	Has/have + been+ V3	Football has been played by him
  Present Perfect Continuous	He has been playing football	Not used and unusual.	Not used and unusual
  Past Simple	He played football	Was/were + V3	Football was played by him
  Past Continuous	He was playing football	Was/were + being + V3	Football was being played by him
  Past Perfect	He had played football	Had + been + V3	Football had been played by him
  Past Perfect Continuous	He had been playing football	Not used and unusual	Not used and unusual
  Future Simple	He will play football	Will + be + V3	Football will be played by him
  Future Continuous	He will be playing football	Not used and unusual	Not used and unusual
  Future Perfect	He will have played football	Will have been + V3	Football will have been played by him
  Future Perfect Continuous	He will have been playing football	Not used and unusual	Not used and unusual

The correct answer is 'Promises should be kept.'.

Key Points

• The given sentence is in active voice.
• It is an imperative sentence that expresses advice.
• The structure of the sentence in passive voice is : Subject (object)+ should be +past participle of the verb.
• Promises will be the subject of the sentence in the passive voice and after that 'should be' is written followed by 'kept' (past participle of keep')
• Thus, the correct answer is option 1.

Correct Passive Voice: Promises should be kept.

The correct answer is The parents as well as the child have been invited

Key Points

• The instructions given below should be followed while changing an assertive sentence to passive voice.
  • Find the subject and object of the sentence and exchange their places; make changes in their cases as well if subject and object are pronouns.
  • Use preposition by before the agent.
  • Use an appropriate helping verb in passive form according to the tense of the active form. (Present perfect - has/have + been)
  • Always use the third form of the main verb in passive form.
  • At last line up the remaining part.
• So, the final sentence is - The parents as well as the child have been invited.​

Important Points

• In a sentence, if two subjects are joined by certain conjunctions like with, along with, as well as, in addition to, except, rather than, and not, but, etc., the verb will follow the first subject.  
  • Example: The King, as well as his courtiers, was invited for the feast. 
• In the passive voice of the given sentence, the verb 'have' follows the first subject 'the parents'.​

Additional Information

• The voice of the sentence should be changed according to the following rules:    

The correct answer is She will be told later by Manu. 

Key Points

• In the passive voice of simple future tense, the auxiliary verb shall / will is used with be and past participle of a verb.
• The object of the sentence becomes the subject.
• Here action will be done on the object in the future.
• Formation:
  • Active: Subject + will/shall + V1 + object.
  • Passive: Object + will/shall + be + V3 + by + subject.
• Thus, the correct passive form of the given sentence is option 3. 

The correct answer is 'All tasks are handled efficiently by her'.

Key Points

• The given sentence is in Active Voice. As per the question we have to change it into Passive Voice. 
• The structure of the given sentence is as follows:
  • Subject + V1 + Object. (Active Voice)
  • Subject (Objective Case) + is/am/are + V3 + Object (Subjective Case). (Passive Voice) 

• Example:
  • Aastha teaches English. (Active Voice) 
  • English is taught by Aastha. (Passive Voice)
• The subject of the given sentence is 'She'. 
• The object of the given sentence is 'All tasks'. 
• The subject will be put in place of the object and the object will be put in place of the subject.
• 'handles' will be changed into 'are handled'.
   

Correct Sentence: All tasks are handled efficiently by her.

The correct answer is Have they occupied the villa?

Key Points

• The given sentence is in the present perfect tense.
• In the present perfect tense passive verb forms are made by putting has/have + been before the past participle form of the verb.
• For converting passive to active voice the places of subject and object are inter-changed and by is removed.
• Sentence structure:
  • Active voice: Subject + has/have + past participle (V3) + object
  • Passive voice: Object + has/have + been + past participle (V3) + (by + subject)
• Thus, the correct active form of the given sentence is option 3. 

Key Points

• Whenever a sentence in present continuous tense is changed into its passive voice, then we follow the given structure:-
• 'Is/am/are + V_ing' is changed to 'is/am/are + being + V₃'.
• For Example:-
  • Active - They are playing cricket in that field.
  • Passive - Cricket is being played by them in that field.