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.
Why have they not paid for the tickets?
Answer: B
Correct answer: Why have the tickets not been paid for by them?
Pay for is a prepositional verb, so for stays with the participle. The present perfect gives have not been paid for, and the question order puts have first.
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I called them.
Answer: A
Correct answer: They were called by me.
Called is past simple, so the passive is were called. The three perfect options all shift the action away from the plain past, and has been also fails to agree with they.
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You did not like him.
Answer: B
Correct answer: He was not liked by you.
The past simple negative did not like becomes was not liked; the auxiliary did is absorbed into was. The future and perfect options change the tense.
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Did they see the movie?
Answer: D
Correct answer: Was the movie seen by them?
The past simple question did they see becomes was the movie seen, with did absorbed into was and the question order kept. The perfect and future options change the tense.
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She was pressurizing them.
Answer: A
Correct answer: They were being pressurized by her.
The past continuous was pressurizing becomes were being pressurized. The past perfect makes it complete, the future moves it forward, and the present drops the past altogether.
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Open your work book at page twelve.
Answer: D
Correct answer: Let your work book be opened at page twelve
An imperative goes passive as let + object + be + participle. Can and may turn a command into a permission, and the first option is still active.
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Have the box broken.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Get someone to break the box.
Have the box broken is a causative: the speaker is not doing the breaking but arranging for it. The active equivalent therefore needs an agent to do it - get someone to break the box. Break the box makes the listener do it.
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His pocket has been picked.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Someone has picked his pocket
Turning the passive active needs an agent, and where none is given English supplies the indefinite someone. The present perfect has been picked becomes has picked. The other options keep the passive or turn the verb into a noun.
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Why do you waste time?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Why is time wasted by you?
The present simple question why do you waste becomes why is time wasted, with do absorbed into is. The perfect and continuous options change the tense of what the question treats as a habit.
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People claim to have seen the suspect in several cities.
Answer: A
Correct answer: The suspect is claimed to have been seen in several cities
Two verbs go passive: people claim becomes is claimed, and to have seen becomes to have been seen. The options that convert only the second lose the claiming, which is what the sentence is chiefly about.
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