Fill in the blanks with suitable active and passive verb forms
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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Why does an officer neglect the duties?
Answer: B
Correct answer: Why are the duties neglected by an officer?
The duties is plural, so the passive is are neglected, and the question order puts the auxiliary first. Neglect without -ed is the base form, not the participle.
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Are they playing a match against our team?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Is a match being played against our team by them?
The present continuous are playing becomes is being played, singular to agree with a match. Is played drops the continuous, and be played and been played put the wrong form after is.
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The school has announced the result.
Answer: B
Correct answer: The result has been announced by the school.
The present perfect has announced becomes has been announced. Has announced is still active, and has be and has being are not verb forms.
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The boys will have taken an exam.
Answer: D
Correct answer: An exam will have been taken by the boys.
The future perfect will have taken becomes will have been taken. The options with would change the modal, and will had been puts a past auxiliary after will.
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