Identifying and changing: Active and Passive voice

1. Select the sentence that uses the active voice.

• The Greek festival was enjoyed by all the visitors.

• All the visitors enjoyed the Greek festival.

Select the sentence that uses the passive voice.

• Several people were arrested by the police.

• The police arrested several people.

Revise the sentence by changing the passive voice to the active voice:

"Martin is given the medicine bag by Grandpa."

• Grandpa is given the medicine bag by Martin.

• Grandpa gives the medicine bag to Martin.

Revise the sentence by changing the active voice to the passive voice:

"Taylor Swift's fans adore her."

• Taylor Swift's fans used to adore her.

• Taylor Swift is adored by her fans.

Identify the following sentence as active voice or passive voice:

"The kicker missed the point after the touchdown."

• active

• passive

Identify the following sentence as active voice or passive voice:

"The old sofa was hauled down to the basement by Barney."

• active

• passive

Identify the following sentence as active voice or passive voice:

"The guest speaker told the audience about the South Pole."

• active

• passive

Revise the sentence by changing the active voice to the passive voice:

"A sudden storm ruined the wheat crop."

• A sudden storm is going to ruin the wheat crop.

• The wheat crop was ruined by a sudden storm.

Revise the sentence by changing the passive voice to active:

"A bus was taken by Grandpa to get to Martin's family."

• Grandpa took the bus to get to Martin’s family.

• Grandpa was taken by bus to get to Martin's family.

Rewrite the active voice sentence into passive voice.

"People celebrate Christmas in December."

• In December, people celebrate Christmas.

• Christmas is celebrated in December.