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Passive Basics
Passive Tenses
Passive Detective
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Challenge
100

Choose the correct answer.

The classroom ________ every morning.

A. clean
B. cleans
C. is cleaned
D. is cleaning


C

100

Complete the sentence:

The school uniforms ________ (wash) every Monday.

Answer:
are washed

100

s this sentence ACTIVE or PASSIVE?

The door is opened every morning.

Passive

100

Find and correct the mistake:

The classroom are cleaned every afternoon.

❌ are
✅ is

100

I am used when we want to focus on the person or thing that receives an action.
I usually use to be + V3. Who am I?

Passive Voice

200

Change the sentence into Passive Voice:

People use smartphones for many different purposes.

Smartphones are used for many different purposes.

200

The students are preparing the presentation.

Which sentence is the correct Passive Voice?

A. The presentation is prepared by the students.
B. The presentation was prepared by the students.
C. The presentation is being prepared by the students.
D. The presentation has been prepared by the students.

C

200

Find the receiver/object of the action:

The students are given new books by their teacher.

new books

200

Find and correct the mistake:

The cake was make by my sister.


❌ make
✅ made

The cake was made by my sister.

200

Change this sentence into passive voice:

Someone opened the window last night.

The window was opened last night.

300

Arrange the words into a correct sentence, then turn it into passive voice

every Friday / delicious meals / serve / to the students / by the cafeteria


Delicious meals are served to the students by the cafeteria every Friday.

300

Change into passive voice:

The workers are repairing the road.

Answer:
The road is being repaired by the workers.

300

The classroom window was broken yesterday, but nobody knows who did it.

Answer:

1. Is this sentence Active or Passive?
2. What happened to the window?
3. Why isn't the person mentioned?

Answer:

  1. Passive
  2. It was broken.
  3. The person who broke it is unknown or indefinite pronoun 
300

Find and correct the mistake:

The new books has been delivered to the library.

❌ has
✅ have

The new books have been delivered to the library.

300

Which one is correct?

The students are preparing the presentation.

A. The presentation is prepared by the students.
B. The presentation is being prepared by the students.
C. The presentation has been prepared by the students.
D. The presentation was prepared by the students.

B

400

Which sentence is the correct passive form?

Many tourists visit Bali every year.

A. Bali is visited by many tourists every year.
B. Bali was visited by many tourists every year.
C. Bali is visiting by many tourists every year.
D. Bali visits by many tourists every year.

A

400

Change into passive voice:

The students have finished the project.

Answer:
The project has been finished by the students.

400

Which sentence focuses more on the object/receiver?

A. The chef cooked the dinner.
B. The dinner was cooked by the chef.

B

400

There are TWO mistakes in the sentence. Find and correct them!

The new classrooms is being build by the workers this month.


The new classrooms are being built by the workers this month.

Mistakes:

  1. ❌ is → ✅ are
    → classrooms = plural
  2. ❌ build → ✅ built
400

PASSIVE OR ACTIVE? 

Read the two sentences carefully.

A. The students have completed the project.
B. The project has been completed by the students.

Your challenge:

  1. Which sentence is Active?
  2. Which sentence is Passive?
  3. What is the difference in focus between the two sentences?
  1. A = Active
  2. B = Passive
  3. A focuses on the students (the doer), while B focuses on the project (the receiver of the action).
500

Change into passive voice. Then decide whether “by the students” is necessary.

The students decorate the classroom before the competition.

Answer:
The classroom is decorated before the competition (by the students).

“By the students” is optional because the main focus is the classroom/action, 

500

Read the clues and complete the sentences using the correct Passive Voice.

1. Yesterday, the school held a surprise event.
2. Today, the teachers are preparing the hall.
3. Tomorrow, the school will display the students’ artwork.

Complete the sentences:

1. Yesterday, a surprise event __________ by the school.

2. Today, the hall __________ by the teachers.

3. Tomorrow, the students’ artwork __________ by the school.

✅ Answer Key

  1. was held → Past Passive
  2. is being prepared → Continuous Passive
  3. will be displayed → Future Passive
500

Look at the sentence:

The new computers have been installed in the laboratory.

Answer TWO things:

  1. What is the tense?
  2. Why is the agent not mentioned?
  1. Present Perfect Passive
  2. The person who installed them is not important / not mentioned.
500

There are TWO mistakes. Find them!

The competition will be hold next week and the winner will be announce on Friday.

❌ hold → ✅ held
❌ announce → ✅ announced

Correct sentence: The competition will be held next week and the winner will be announced on Friday.

500

Change BOTH sentences into passive voice:

a. The company will deliver the new computers tomorrow.
b. Someone has broken the classroom window.

a. The new computers will be delivered by the company tomorrow.

b. The classroom window has been broken.