Active and Passive Voice

Change the voice:

Mr. Adani was chosen as chairman

• They chose Mr. Adani as chairman

• Mr. Adani chose him as chairman

• He was chosen as chairman

• They chose him as chairman

Change the voice:

Did you plant these flowers?

• Were you planting these flowers?

• Were these flowers planted by you?

• Are these flowers planted by you?

• Have these flowers been planted by you?

Change the voice:

Lightning had struck the house

• The house has been struck by lightning

• The house was struck by lightning

• The house had been struck by lightning

• The house is struck by lightning

Change the voice:

It will be forgotten after some time

• They may forget it after some time

• They will have forgotten it after some time

• People will forget it after some time

• People have forgotten it after some time

Change the voice:

By whom was this foolish letter written?

• Who has written this foolish letter?

• Who wrote this foolish letter?

• Who would have written this foolish letter?

• Who was writing this foolish letter?

Change the voice:

All the telegraph wires have been cut

• They cut all the telegraph wires

• They have been cutting all the telegraph wires

• Someone is cutting all the telegraph wires

• Someone has cut all the telegraph wires

Change the voice:

Everyone shall laugh at us

• We shall be laughed by everyone

• We will be laughing at everyone

• We shall be laughed at by everyone

• They shall laugh at us

Change the voice:

He kept us waiting

• They kept waiting for us

• We were kept waiting by him

• We were waiting for him

• We kept him waiting

Change the voice:

He gave me a present

• A present was given to him by me

• I was given a present by him

• He was given a present by me

• I gave him a present

Change the voice:

She agreed to my proposal

• My proposal was agreed by her

• I agreed to her proposal

• My proposal was agreed to by her

• My proposal was agreeable