Active & Passive Voice MCQs with Answers – Solved from Past Papers

Present Simple active ‘They greet me’ → Passive ‘I am greeted by them’: is/am/are + V3.

Future Simple ‘You will praise her’ → ‘She will be praised by you’: will be + V3.

Modal ‘should’ active → ‘should be + V3’ passive: ‘Tranquilizer should be avoided by us’.

Modal passive ‘should not be encouraged’ → active ‘We should not encourage indiscipline’: modal + base verb.

Past Simple ‘people elected him Mayor’ → ‘He was elected Mayor by the people’: was/were + V3, object complement retained.

Present Continuous interrogative ‘Who is creating…’ → ‘By whom is this mess being created?’: By whom + is/am/are + being + V3.

Present Simple wh-question ‘Why do you tell a lie?’ → ‘Why is a lie told by you?’: Why + is/are + object + V3 + by agent.

Past Simple ‘His wife upbraided him’ → ‘He was upbraided by his wife’: was/were + V3.

Past Simple ‘They held a meeting’ → ‘A meeting was held by them’: was/were + V3.

Present Simple with universal agent ‘people’ → ‘English is spoken all over the world’: agent ‘people’ may be dropped.

Gerund construction ‘I remember my sister taking me’ → ‘I remember being taken to the museum by my sister’: being + V3.

Past Simple wh-question with ‘did’ → ‘Why was the best part of your life wasted by you?’: Why + was/were + V3 + by agent.

Past Simple negative ‘She never understood me’ → ‘I was never understood by her’: was/were + V3.

Passive Present Simple ‘is used by us’ → active ‘We use this house’: is/am/are + V3 becomes subject + base verb.

Present Continuous ‘Sana is washing her clothes’ → ‘Her clothes are being washed by Sana’: is/am/are + being + V3.

Present Continuous interrogative ‘Are they playing…’ → ‘Is a match being played…?’: Is/Am/Are + object + being + V3.

Future Perfect ‘Will my mother have baked’ → ‘Will the cake have been baked by my mother?’: will + have been + V3.

Present Simple ‘I hear the footsteps’ (plural object) → ‘The footsteps…are heard by me’: is/am/are + V3, verb agrees with new subject (footsteps → are).

Modal ‘can’ active → ‘can be + V3’ passive: ‘No more can be contained in this box’.

Verb of perception with participle ‘I saw him leaving’ → ‘He was seen leaving the house by me’: was/were + seen + present participle retained.

Modal ‘must’ active → ‘must be + V3’ passive: ‘Your parents must be obeyed by you’.

Past Simple wh-question ‘Who designed a car?’ → ‘By whom was a car designed?’: By whom + was/were + V3.

Past Simple ‘he realized’ → ‘it was realized by him’: was/were + V3; noun clause retained.

Past Continuous passive ‘was being chased’ → active ‘The dogs were chasing him’: was/were + V-ing.

Past Simple negative ‘did not break’ → ‘was not broken by the boy’: was/were + not + V3.

Present Perfect interrogative ‘Have you taken a rest?’ → ‘Has a rest been taken by you?’: Has/Have + object + been + V3. Stored ci=0 shows ‘Have a rest been taken by you?’ — subject-verb form mismatch but this is the closest and marked answer.

Past Continuous ‘He was driving a car’ → ‘A car was being driven by him, when the accident occurred’: was/were + being + V3.

Present Perfect ‘The baby has lost her doll’ → ‘Her doll has been lost by the baby’: has/have + been + V3.

Modal ‘may’ active → ‘may be + V3’ passive: ‘You may be punished by the teacher’.

Present Simple wh-question ‘Why does an officer neglect duties?’ → ‘Why are the duties neglected by an officer?’: Why + is/are + V3 + by agent (plural ‘duties’ → are).

Future Simple negative ‘won’t attend’ → ‘won’t be attended by them’: will not be + V3.

Future Simple ‘She will build this house’ → ‘This house will be built by her’: will be + V3.

Past Simple with two objects ‘gave the beggar an old shirt’ → ‘An old shirt was given to the beggar by Sajid’: indirect object takes ‘to’.

Past Simple interrogative with ‘did’ → ‘Was a zoo visited by you?’: Was/Were + object + V3.

Reported speech: ‘Why are you sleeping’ (Present Continuous) → ‘I asked her why she was sleeping’: backshift to Past Continuous; wh-word retained, no ‘that’.

Past Simple ‘They broke up the table’ → ‘The table was broken up for firewood by them’: was/were + V3, phrasal verb retained.

Present Perfect interrogative ‘Has someone made…?’ → ‘Have all the necessary arrangements been made?’: Has/Have + object + been + V3; indefinite agent ‘someone’ dropped.

Future Simple ‘She will invite me’ → ‘I shall be invited by her’: shall/will be + V3 (I → shall traditionally).

Ellipsis: ‘the sitar is [played] also’ — retains passive form ‘played by him’ matching antecedent ‘Afridi’.

Present Perfect ‘She has completed two courses’ → ‘Two courses have been completed by her’: has/have + been + V3 (plural subject → have).

Present Perfect ‘The boy has rung the bell’ → ‘The bell has been rung by the boy’: has/have + been + V3.

Present Simple ‘I take exercise daily’ → ‘Exercise is taken daily by me’: is/am/are + V3.

Past Simple negative ‘He did not give up the fight’ → ‘The fight was not given up by him’: was/were + not + V3, phrasal verb ‘give up’ retained.

Passive Present Simple ‘Movies are not watched by him’ → active ‘He does not watch movies’: does + not + base verb (3rd person singular).

Past Simple ‘Someone pulled the bull’ → ‘The bull was pulled violently’: was/were + V3; indefinite agent ‘someone’ dropped.