Practice Quiz: Passive Voice - SSC CGL MCQ

• The sentence "TV / invent / Baird" needs to be converted into passive voice.
• Identify the tense: The sentence implies a past event, so we'll use the past simple tense.
• Active voice: "Baird invented the TV."
• Passive voice: "The TV was invented by Baird."
• In passive constructions, the object "TV" becomes the subject, and "invented" turns into "was invented."

It is the active voice
Passive voice is Let the work be finished in time.

To form the passive voice, the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence. Follow these steps:

• The active sentence is: "Cows produce milk."
• The subject "cows" becomes the agent in the passive voice, often omitted.
• The object "milk" becomes the subject in the passive voice.
• Use the verb "to be" in the present simple tense ("is") to match the tense of the original verb.
• Add the past participle of the main verb, "produced."
• Resulting sentence: "Milk is produced (by cows)."

A verb is used to express an occurrence, action, or state. It is the grammatical center of the predicate in a sentence.
An auxiliary verb is a verb which is used in the formation of tenses, moods, tones, etc.
The passive voice and indicates the use of the past participle form of the verb.
Coffee is grown in Brazil.
 

Chopsticks are used in China.

Plants are watered everyday.

- To form the passive voice, identify the object of the active sentence, which becomes the subject of the passive sentence.
- The sentence "the policeman arrested the robber yesterday" changes to passive by making "the robber" the subject.
- Use the past simple tense for the verb "arrest" since the action occurred yesterday.
- The correct passive construction is: "The robber was arrested by the policeman yesterday."

Injured marines are being taken to a hospital now.

- The original sentence is in the past continuous tense: "The boys were playing Cricket."
- To convert this to the passive voice, we need to use the structure: "was/were being + past participle."
- Thus, "Cricket was being played by the boys" is the correct passive form.

Pasive voice will be :

The letters were sent last week.