Fill in the blanks with suitable active and passive verb forms
The students -------- to submit their reports by the end of this week.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Are asked
The students are the ones who receive the instruction, so the verb is passive: are asked to submit. Have asked and are asking would make them the ones doing the asking.
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She --------- for a while.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Has been ailing
For a while marks a period running up to the present, which the present perfect continuous expresses. She is singular, so the auxiliary is has, not have.
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The teacher ------- the student for lying.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Punished
The teacher is the one doing the punishing, so the verb stays active and past: punished. The passive forms would make the teacher the person punished.
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I ------- to become a successful writer.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Have always wanted
I am the one who wants, so the verb is active. The present perfect covers a wish held from the past up to now, and always sits between the auxiliary and the participle.
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The inmates of the juvenile home -------– well by their caretakers.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Were not being treated
By their caretakers marks the sentence as passive, and the inmates is plural, so the auxiliary is were. The past continuous passive is were being treated, which describes a state of affairs over a period.
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As the patient could not walk he -------– home in a wheel chair.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Was carried
The patient could not walk, so somebody else carried him - he is the one acted upon, and the verb is the past passive was carried. Was carrying would make him the one doing the carrying.
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The injured -------- to the hospital in an ambulance.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Were taken
The injured is a plural noun here, and they are the ones taken, so the verb is were taken. Were taking and have taken are active and would make them the ones doing the taking.
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In the questions below the sentences have been given in Active/Passive voice. From the given alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Passive/Active voice.
After driving professor Kumar to the museum she dropped him at his hotel.
Answer: A
Correct answer: After being driven to the museum, Professor Kumar was dropped at his hotel.
Both clauses go passive together. The participial phrase after driving becomes after being driven, and it must attach to the new subject - Professor Kumar - which is exactly why the option keeping she as subject leaves a dangling modifier. Dropped him then becomes was dropped.
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I remember my sister taking me to the museum.
Answer: B
Correct answer: I remember being taken to the museum by my sister.
The verb remember takes a gerund, so the passive must also be a gerund: being taken. I remember I was taken replaces the gerund with a clause, and myself being taken adds a reflexive the construction does not need.
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Who is creating this mess?
Answer: D
Correct answer: By whom is this mess being created?
Three things must hold at once: the tense stays present continuous, so the passive is is being created; the interrogative subject who becomes the agent by whom; and because it is a question the auxiliary comes before the subject. Only the keyed option does all three.
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