Free Active and Passive Voice MCQs with Answers
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Active voice presents the doer as the subject, while passive voice presents the receiver of the action and uses an appropriate form of “be” with the past participle. Questions cover tense changes, modal verbs, omitted agents and sentences that cannot be passivized because they lack a suitable object.
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- A. Were
- B. Are
- C. Have
- D. Had
Explanation: The sentence talks about a real future condition. In future real conditional sentences, we use present simple in the "unless" clause.
Correct answer: Are- A. The police will be informed by them.
- B. The police will inform them.
- C. The police are informed by them.
- D. Informed will be the police by them.
Explanation: The original sentence "They will inform the police" is in active voice, where the subject "they" performs the action of informing.
Correct answer: The police will be informed by them.- A. Was not declared
- B. Have not been declared
- C. Has not been declared
- D. Is not declared
Explanation: The sentence talks about news that has not declared up to now, which is a situation connecting the past to the present.
Correct answer: Has not been declared- A. Let the dog be not beaten.
- B. Let the dog be beaten not.
- C. Not let the dog be beaten.
- D. Let the dog not be beaten.
Explanation: The sentence is a negative imperative in active voice "Do not beat the dog".
Correct answer: Let the dog not be beaten.- A. At dinner, six shrimp were eaten by Harry.
- B. At dinner, six shrimp had been eaten by Harry.
- C. At dinner, six shrimp was eaten by Harry.
- D. At dinner, six shrimp had eaten by Harry.
Explanation: The original sentence is in active voice, where the subject "Harry" performs the action of eating.
Correct answer: At dinner, six shrimp were eaten by Harry.- A. I think that the house was built in 1814.
- B. By think that the house was built in 1814.
- C. I think that the house built in 1814.
- D. I think that the house had been built in 1814.
Explanation: The active sentence 'someone built the house in 1814' is in the simple past.
Correct answer: I think that the house was built in 1814.- A. He was killed with knife by murderer.
- B. He was a killed from a knife by murderer.
- C. He was killed by a knife by murderer.
- D. He was killed with a knife by the murderer.
Explanation: In passive voice, the object of the active sentence becomes the subject: "him" → "He".
Correct answer: He was killed with a knife by the murderer.- A. "The Mill on the Floss" is writen by George Eliot.
- B. "The Mill on the Floss" was written by George Eliot.
- C. "The Mill on the Floss" had been written by George Eliot.
- D. "The Mill on the Floss" was being written by George Eliot.
Explanation: Option B is in correct passive voice because the focus is on the book, not the author.
Correct answer: "The Mill on the Floss" was written by George Eliot.- A. How had he been defrauded of his savings?
- B. How had he been defrauded by her?
- C. How was he defrauded of his savings?
- D. How was he defrauded by her of his savings?
Explanation: Option D is the only sentence, that has all the components of the main sentence, hence we will go with that option.
Correct answer: How was he defrauded by her of his savings?- A. He is calling you names.
- B. He calls you names.
- C. He called you names.
- D. You are being called names by him.
Explanation: When the passive voice is in past simple tense the active voice is written in present simple tense. Hence B is the correct answer.
Correct answer: He calls you names.- A. Smoking has been forbidden on the campus by the principal.
- B. Smoking had been forbidden on the campus by the principal.
- C. Smoking was being forbidden on the campus by the principal.
- D. It is forbidden by the principal to smoke on campus.
Explanation: When active voice is converted into passive voice the place of subject and object are interchanged in the sentence and there is no change…
Correct answer: Smoking has been forbidden on the campus by the principal.92. Saba was sick on the bus.[The underlined prepositional phrase functions as a _ in this sentence:]
- A. Adjunct
- B. Disjunct
- C. Conjunct
- D. Adverbial
Explanation: Adverbials give more information about verbs and even if dropped, it won't have a significant impact on the sentence hence D is the right…
Correct answer: Adverbial- A. The room needed to clean by her.
- B. The room needed to be cleaned by her.
- C. The room needs to be clean by her.
- D. The room needs to be cleaned by her.
Explanation: Option D correctly uses the passive voice. It uses the auxiliary verb "be" in combination with the past participle form of the verb…
Correct answer: The room needs to be cleaned by her.- A. He is calling you names.
- B. He calls you names.
- C. He called you names.
- D. You are being called names by him.
Explanation: The sentence 'You are called names by him.' is in passive voice and present simple tense.
Correct answer: He calls you names.- A. Smoking has been forbidden on the campus by the principal.
- B. Smoking had been forbidden on the campus by the principal.
- C. Smoking was being forbidden on the campus by the principal.
- D. It is forbidden by the principal to smoke on campus.
Explanation: The correct passive voice conversion of 'The principal has forbidden smoking on the campus.' is 'Smoking has been forbidden on the campus…
Correct answer: Smoking has been forbidden on the campus by the principal.- A. Surprise
- B. Surprised
- C. Surprising
- D. Surprises
Explanation: B is the correct option because this is the past participle form of the verb "surprise" used as an adjective.
Correct answer: Surprised- A. Was knocked at
- B. Knocked at
- C. Was knocking at
- D. Knocks at
Explanation: C is the correct option because This is the passive voice construction in the past tense, which correctly indicates that the action of…
Correct answer: Was knocked at- A. Sent to
- B. Were sent
- C. Sent
- D. Would have sent to
Explanation: The correct answer is B: 'were sent'. This choice accurately reflects the past tense passive voice.
Correct answer: Were sent- A. The gate did not open by the guard.
- B. The gate had not been opened by the guard.
- C. The gate was not opened by the guard.
- D. The gate was not being opened by the guard
Explanation: Identify the object of the active sentence:Object: the gateMove the object to the subject position:New subject: The gateUse the correct…
Correct answer: The gate was not opened by the guard.- A. Had been invented
- B. Had invented
- C. Has been invented
- D. Would be invented
Explanation: B is the correct option because this is active voice and past perfect tense.
Correct answer: Had invented