Mastering Passive Voice in All Tenses

Convert to passive: The chef cooked a meal.

• A meal is cooked by the chef.

• The meal was cooked by a chef.

• The chef was cooking a meal.

• A meal was cooked by the chef.

Convert to passive: The students completed the project.

• The project was completed by the students.

• The students are completing the project.

• The project completed the students.

• The project was completed.

Convert to passive: The teacher is grading the exams.

• The exams are being graded by the teacher.

• The teacher grades the exams.

• The exams are graded by the teacher.

• The exams were graded by the teacher.

Convert to passive: The committee will announce the results.

• The committee announced the results.

• The results are announced by the committee.

• The results will be announced by the committee.

• The results will be announcing by the committee.

Convert to passive: The artist painted a beautiful mural.

• The mural was beautifully painted by the artist.

• The artist was painting a beautiful mural.

• A beautiful mural was painted by the artist.

• A beautiful mural painted the artist.

Use passive voice in present continuous: They are building a new bridge.

• A bridge is being built.

• They are building a bridge by them.

• They build a new bridge.

• A new bridge is being built by them.

Use passive voice in past simple: The dog chased the cat.

• The cat was chased by the dog.

• The cat chased the dog.

• The dog was chased by the cat.

• The dog is chased by the cat.

Use passive voice in future simple: The company will launch a new product.

• The company will be launching a new product.

• A new product is launched by the company.

• A new product will be launched by the company.

• The new product will launch by the company.

Convert to passive: The manager approved the budget.

• The budget is approved by the manager.

• The manager was approved by the budget.

• The budget was approved by the manager.

• The budget was rejected by the manager.

Convert to passive: The children are playing the game.

• The children are playing the game by the game.

• The game was played by the children.

• The game is being played by the children.

• The game is played by the children.