English Grammar Test: Passive Voice (Practice Test 2)
- Passive Voice
- 10 questions
- 12 minutes
A second set of passive voice questions. Tip: the passive is a form of be + past participle, and the form of be shows the tense.
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Question 1
The Golden Gate Bridge ____ between 1933 and 1937.
Correct answer: C
A bridge cannot build anything; workers built it in a finished past period, so use the past simple passive: was built. Has built is active and cannot go with a finished time like 1933-1937.
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Question 2
Millions of emails ____ every minute around the world.
Correct answer: B
Emails do not send anything; they receive the action, so you need the passive are sent. Are sending would make the emails the senders.
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Question 3
Your room ____ right now. Please wait in the lobby.
Correct answer: A
For an action in progress now, the passive is is being + past participle. Is cleaned is a regular or general action and does not fit right now.
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Question 4
The new library ____ by the mayor next month.
Correct answer: D
The future passive is will be + past participle. The phrase by the mayor shows the library receives the action, so will open does not fit.
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Question 5
All the tickets ____ by the time we got to the box office.
Correct answer: C
The selling happened before another past moment, so use the past perfect passive: had been sold. Have been sold is present perfect and does not match got.
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Question 6
I ____ to a wedding next month, and I need a new suit.
Correct answer: D
Someone invited me, so the verb is passive: have been invited. I have invited would mean I sent the invitation.
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Question 7
"They will deliver the sofa on Tuesday." Which sentence says the same thing in the passive voice?
Correct answer: B
The tense stays future, and deliver becomes will be delivered. The sofa will deliver wrongly makes the sofa the one who delivers.
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Question 8
My laptop wasn't working, so I ____ by a technician.
Correct answer: A
Have + object + past participle means you arranged for someone else to do it: had it repaired. Had repaired it means I repaired it myself.
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Question 9
Which sentence is in the passive voice?
Correct answer: C
Only have been eaten is be + past participle with the cookies receiving the action. The cookies were delicious has be, but delicious is an adjective, not a past participle.
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Question 10
The suspect is believed ____ the country last night.
Correct answer: B
After is believed, use the to-infinitive. The leaving happened before now (last night), so it needs the perfect infinitive to have left.
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