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Active and Passive Voice Questions with Answers

Converting between voices across tenses, questions and imperatives. This page pools every active and passive voice question on the site (111 of them, from 20 exams, weighted towards Banking, SSC, Engineering) so you can drill the topic on its own instead of meeting four of them inside a full paper.

14% of the pool is graded hard on this site’s own scale and 11% easy, which is about average for this section.

Questions
111
Practice set
25 in 25 min
Difficulty
12/83/16
Negative marking
None
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Active and Passive Voice questions with solutions

6 from the 111-question pool, worked in full.

  1. 1. Choose the correct passive form of: "The auditor examined the accounts."

    • A. The accounts are examined by the auditor.
    • B. The accounts were examined by the auditor. ✓
    • C. The auditor was examined by the accounts.
    • D. The accounts had examined the auditor.

    Solution. The original sentence is in the past simple active voice, so the passive form uses "were" plus the past participle: "were examined".

  2. 2. Change to active voice: "The rules were violated by the drivers."

    • A. The rules violate the drivers.
    • B. The drivers were violating the rules.
    • C. The rules had violated the drivers.
    • D. The drivers violated the rules. ✓

    Solution. In active voice, the agent ("the drivers") becomes the subject: "The drivers violated the rules."

  3. 3. Select the passive form of “The panel is reviewing the disputed answers.”

    • A. The disputed answers have been reviewed by the panel.
    • B. The disputed answers are being reviewed by the panel. ✓
    • C. The disputed answers were being reviewed by the panel.
    • D. The panel is being reviewed by the disputed answers.

    Solution. The present-continuous passive uses “am/is/are being + past participle”.

  4. 4. Identify the passive form of “People believe that the manuscript is authentic.”

    • A. The manuscript is believed to be authentic. ✓
    • B. The manuscript believes to be authentic.
    • C. It has believed the manuscript authentic.
    • D. The manuscript was believing authenticity.

    Solution. The reporting passive is formed as “subject + is believed + to-infinitive”.

  5. 5. Choose the correct passive voice of: "The auditor reviewed the accounts."

    • A. The accounts are reviewed by the auditor.
    • B. The accounts were reviewed by the auditor. ✓
    • C. The accounts had been reviewing by the auditor.
    • D. The accounts review by the auditor.

    Solution. The original sentence is in simple past active voice, so the correct passive form is "The accounts were reviewed by the auditor."

  6. 6. Choose the correct passive voice of: "Someone had already verified the land records before the site visit."

    • A. The land records were already verified before the site visit.
    • B. The land records had already been verified before the site visit. ✓
    • C. The land records has already been verified before the site visit.
    • D. The land records are already being verified before the site visit.

    Solution. The past perfect active "had verified" becomes "had been verified" in the passive voice.

Exams that set Active and Passive Voice

5 categories, led by Banking, SSC, Engineering.

Also set by SBI PO, SEBI Grade A, SIDBI Grade A & B, SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, SSC CHT, SSC CPO, SSC Stenographer. Browse all exams.

Active and Passive Voice: frequently asked questions

How many active and passive voice questions are there?

111, from the 20 exams here whose syllabus sets the topic. 11% are graded easy and 14% hard, which makes active and passive voice about average for this section, where the mean is 17%.

Which exams ask active and passive voice questions?

20 of the exams on this site, weighted towards Banking (10), SSC (5), Engineering (3). Every question in this pool comes from one of their own mock tests, so the list below is the honest answer to whether the topic is worth your time.

Is active and passive voice hard?

14% of these 111 questions are graded hard and 11% easy, making it about average for this section, where the mean is 17%.

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