Active-Passive voice Questions and Answers

Answer: D

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 options keeping she as subject leave a dangling modifier. Dropped him then becomes was dropped.

Answer: D

Correct answer: He was seen conducting the rehearsal

The object of saw is him, so he becomes the subject of the passive. The participle conducting is untouched. The options beginning I saw are still active, and to conduct replaces an action in progress with a completed one.

Answer: C

Correct answer: The police arrested him on a charge of theft, but for lack of evidence released him.

Both halves go active. The first passive, he was arrested, needs an agent, and the police are the understood one; the second, he was released, shares that subject and so becomes released him. The option that leaves he was released converts only half the sentence.

Answer: D

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.

Answer: D

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.

Answer: A

Correct answer: They were laughing at the clown.

Laugh at is a prepositional verb, so in the active the preposition returns to its normal place before the object. The past continuous was being laughed at becomes were laughing; the plain past option changes the aspect.

Answer: A

Correct answer: A letter is being written by him.

The present continuous is writing becomes is being written. Is written drops the continuous, has been written makes it complete, and let a letter be written turns a statement into a command.

Answer: A

Correct answer: The tree was cut into thin strips by the man.

The object the tree becomes the subject and the man the agent, with the past simple giving was cut. Cut itself makes the tree its own agent, and the perfect and modal options change the tense.

Answer: A

Correct answer: A hundred rupee note was given to me by my father yesterday.

Give has two objects; making the thing given the subject leaves to me in place. Yesterday must be kept, since it fixes the tense, and the last option reverses who gave and who received.

Answer: B

Correct answer: The plane was landed safely by the pilot.

Landed is past simple, so the passive is was landed. The perfect options change when it happened, and was to be landed turns an accomplished act into an intention.