Past Passive (Quiz 1)

Read the following Past Active Sentence transformed into the Past Passive and choose if it is correct or incorrect:

Active: Who wrote this book?

Passive: Who was this book written by?

• Correct

• Incorrect

Read the following Past Active Sentence transformed into the Past Passive and choose if it is correct or incorrect:

Active: The children rang the bell a few minutes ago.

Passive: The bell was rung by the children a few minutes ago.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Read the following Past Active Sentence transformed into the Past Passive and choose if it is correct or incorrect:

Active: How did they steal her car?

Passive: How was her car stolen by they?

• Correct

• Incorrect

Answer explanation

We need the object pronoun "them" and not the subject "they".

Read the following Past Active Sentence transformed into the Past Passive and choose if it is correct or incorrect:

Active: The kids forgot the whole story in a few days.

Passive: The whole story were forgotten by the kids in a few days.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Answer explanation

"The whole story" replaces the subject "It". This subject takes "was" and not "were".

Read the following Past Active Sentence transformed into the Past Passive and choose if it is correct or incorrect:

Active: Did the president make an important speech last night?

Passive: Was an important speech made by the president last night?

• Correct

• Incorrect

Read the following Past Passive Sentence transformed into the Past Active and choose if it is correct or incorrect:

Passive: I was never sent the bill.

Active: They never sent me the bill.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Read the following Past Passive Sentence transformed into the Past Active and choose if it is correct or incorrect:

Passive: Was the most recent song not sung by the band?

Active: Didn’t the band sang the most recent song?

• Correct

• Incorrect

Answer explanation

The verb "sing" is needed since we're using the auxiliary verb "didn't".

Read the following Past Passive Sentence transformed into the Past Active and choose if it is correct or incorrect:

Passive: The guests were entertained by Elmer.

Active: Elmer entertained the guests.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Read the following Past Passive Sentence transformed into the Past Active and choose if it is correct or incorrect:

Passive: The goal of the year was scored by Dennis Bergkamp.

Active: Dennis Bergkamp scored the goal of the year.

• Correct

• Incorrect

Read the following Past Passive Sentence transformed into the Past Active and choose if it is correct or incorrect:

Passive: Each sentence was converted to passive by the students.

Active: The students converted each sentence to passive.

• Correct

• Incorrect