The passive form (or passive construction) in English is very useful in many different situations. You can use it to give more information about what or who is experiencing something or you can also use it when you don’t know who did it. For a complete overview in English, click here. There is a lot of information, examples and you also have tips on how to recognize this kind of sentence.
On this page, you have an exercise in which you need to choose the right form. In short, it all comes down to the fact whether the subject of the sentence is doing (or did) the action of the sentence or not.
Active or passive form exercise
You can find the exercise below:
Active or Passive Form Multiple Choice Exercise 3
Pick the right form of the verb in the following sentences: active or passive?
1.
I to the news.2.
A banana by me because I really like that.3.
He Chinese to go to China.4.
Belgium by Germany.5.
My hair next week.6.
That man by the police.7.
My friend something that was not his.8.
An email by my boss to inform me that I was fired.9.
I a delicious apple.10.
A new iPhone by Apple.More exercises
- Multiple Choice Exercise 1
- Multiple Choice Exercise 2
- Multiple Choice Exercise 4
- Multiple Choice Exercise 5
- Exercise 1
- Exercise 2
- Exercise 3
- Exercise 4
- Exercise 5
Related articles
- The Passive: a Complete Overview in English
- Present Tenses Overview
- Past Tenses Overview
- Verbs
- Irregular Verbs
