Form
passive voice: a form of the verb to be + past participle
active voice | passive voice | |
present continuous | Jack is building a house. | A house is being built (by Jack). |
Jack is selling houses. | Houses are being sold (by Jack). | |
past continuous | Jack was building a house. | A house was being built (by Jack). |
Jack was selling houses. | Houses were being sold (by Jack). | |
list of irregular verbs |
Exercises
Making active sentences passive in the present continuous (He is building a house ⇒ A house is being built)
- exercise 1: rewrite the sentences (present continuous) in passive voice
- exercise 2: fill in the correct passive verb form (present continuous)
- exercise 3: fill in the correct passive verb form (simple present en present continuous)
- exercise 4: fill in the correct passive verb form (present continuous)
Making active sentences passive in the past continuous (He was building a house ⇒ A house was being built)
- exercise 1: rewrite the sentences (past continuous) in passive voice
- exercise 2: rewrite the sentences (past continuous) in passive voice
Useful pages
- exercises for practising recognizing active and passive voice
- exercises for practising the Simple Present Passive (The house is built.)
- exercises for practising the Simple Past Passive (The house was built.)
- exercises for practising the Perfect Passive (The house has/had been built.)
- exercises for practising the Future and Modal Passive (The house will be built. / The house may have been built.)
- exercises for practising the passive in various tenses
- exercises for practising the Personal Passive (She is known to have built a house.)
- exercises for practising the Double Object Passive (She was given a house / A house was given)