Active and Passive Voice Quiz

Active and Passive Voice

• Voice is a verb form indicating whether the subject performs the action or the action is performed on the subject.
• Active voice: Subject performs the action (e.g., The dog chased the cat).
• Passive voice: Subject receives the action (e.g., The cat was chased by the dog).

Uses of Passive Voice

• Describing a process (e.g., Sugar is added to tea).
• Narrating an incident (e.g., A man was hit by a car).
• Defining something (e.g., Short stories with a moral are called fables).
• Impersonal scientific writing (e.g., Water is poured into the beaker).
• Historical writing (e.g., A great battle was fought at Panipat).
• Writing notices (e.g., A meeting will be held in the school hall tomorrow).
• Making announcements (e.g., The flight will be delayed by two hours).
• Making requests and invitations (e.g., The citizens are invited to the mayor's office today).
• Giving warnings or advice (e.g., Talking should be avoided).

Changing Active to Passive Voice

• Change the subject to the object.
• Change the object to the subject.
• Change the verb to its corresponding passive form.
• Add the appropriate helping verb (e.g., is, was, has been).

Common Misspelled Words

• Some words have different spellings based on their grammatical function (e.g., advice/advise, belief/believe, carrier/career).
• Rules for doubling consonants before adding suffixes:
  • One-syllable words ending in one vowel + one consonant double the consonant (e.g., sit/sitting, beg/begged, run/running).
  • Words of more than one syllable ending in one vowel + one consonant double the final consonant when a suffix beginning with a vowel is added (e.g., submit/submitting, occur/occurred).
  • Words ending in a single 'l' double the 'l' when adding a suffix (e.g., control/controlled, signal/signaled, travel/traveler).

Cloze Tests

• Cloze tests are passages with blanks.
• The options below each blank contain similar meaning words enabling students to choose the correct option.

Test your understanding of active and passive voice through this quiz. Learn how to identify and convert sentences from active to passive voice with ease. Explore examples and uses in various contexts.