Active and Passive Voice

Identify the active voice in the following sentence: The dog chased the cat.

• The cat was chased by the dog.

• The dog chased the cat.

• The cat was being chased by the dog.

• The cat has been chased by the dog.

Identify the passive voice in the following sentence: The cake was baked by Mary.

• Baked by Mary, the cake.

• Mary baked the cake.

• The cake was baked by Mary.

• The cake baked Mary.

Convert the following active voice sentence to passive voice: They built a new house.

• A new house was not built by anyone.

• The new house was built by the old owners.

• They didn't build a new house.

• A new house was built by them.

Convert the following passive voice sentence to active voice: The book was read by me.

• The book was read by someone else

• I read the book.

• The book was never read

• The book was not read by me

Write a sentence in active voice using the word 'eat'.

• I eat an apple every morning.

• An apple has been eaten by me every morning.

• An apple is eaten by me every morning.

• Every morning, an apple is eaten by me.

Write a sentence in passive voice using the word 'paint'.

• The paint was applied to the wall.

• The artist painted the wall.

• The wall was painted by the artist.

• The wall has been painting by the artist.

Identify the active voice in the following sentence: The teacher praised the students.

• The students were praising the teacher.

• The teacher was praised by the students.

• The teacher praised the students.

• The students were praised by the teacher.

Identify the passive voice in the following sentence: The car was driven by John.

• John drove the car.

• The car was driven by John.

• The car drove by John.

• John was driving the car.

Convert the following active voice sentence to passive voice: She will write a letter.

• A letter will not be written by her.

• She will write the letter.

• She will not write a letter.

• A letter will be written by her.

Convert the following passive voice sentence to active voice: The cake was eaten by the children.

• The cake was not eaten by the children.

• The cake was baked by the children.

• The children was eating the cake.

• The children ate the cake.