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Active & passive voice MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers
Solve 24 Active & passive voice questions for RAS/RPSC preparation.
Practice questions
Q1Read the statements and choose the correct option. Statement 1: 'The committee ought to have informed the shortlisted candidates' becomes 'The shortlisted candidates ought to have been informed by the committee.' Statement 2: 'They will have completed the verification by Monday' becomes 'The verification will have been completed by Monday.'
Statement 1 tests the passive of a perfect modal construction. 'Ought to have informed' becomes 'ought to have been informed', with the object 'the shortlisted candidates' moving to subject position. Statement 2 tests the future perfect passive: 'will have completed' becomes 'will have been completed'. In both cases, the main verb is converted to its past participle after 'been', and the time reference is preserved. Therefore, both statements are grammatically correct.
Q2Choose the most appropriate passive form of the verb 'mistake' to complete the sentence: The meter reader ______ for a burglar by the landlady.
The sentence needs a passive construction because the meter reader receives the action: the landlady takes him to be a burglar. The correct passive form is 'was mistaken', followed by 'for' to mean 'was wrongly identified as'. 'Mistook' is active past tense and would need the landlady as the subject. 'Was mistook' is ungrammatical because the past participle is 'mistaken', not 'mistook'. 'Has mistaken' is active present perfect and also leaves the sentence without a proper passive structure.
Q3Choose the correct passive-voice form of the sentence: The disciplinary committee is examining the allegations with unusual care.
In the passive voice, the object of the active sentence becomes the subject, and the tense of the active verb must be preserved. The active verb phrase is 'is examining', which is present continuous. Its passive form is 'is/are being + past participle'. Since the new subject is plural, 'The allegations' takes 'are being examined'. The agent, 'the disciplinary committee', may be added with 'by'. Option A alone keeps the tense, number, and meaning intact.
Q4Assertion (A): The active sentence 'The board has appointed an ombudsman' becomes 'An ombudsman has been appointed by the board' in the passive voice. Reason (R): In the present perfect passive, the auxiliary pattern is 'has/have + been + past participle', and the original object becomes the subject. Choose the correct option.
The assertion is correct because the object of the active sentence, 'an ombudsman', becomes the subject in the passive sentence. The active verb is present perfect: 'has appointed'. Its passive form must therefore use 'has been appointed', not 'is appointed' or 'was appointed'. The reason states exactly this rule and also explains why the noun phrase 'an ombudsman' moves to subject position. Hence both statements are true, and the reason explains the assertion.
Q5For the sentence given, choose the most appropriate answer in the passive voice from the options below: My sister baked a cake.
The sentence is in the simple past tense: "My sister baked a cake." In passive voice, the object "a cake" becomes the subject, and the verb changes to "was baked" because the subject is singular and the tense remains simple past. "Had been baked" shifts the sentence to past perfect, which changes the tense. "Is being baked" is present continuous passive, and "was being baked" is past continuous passive. Only "A cake was baked by my sister" preserves the meaning and tense.
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6Choose the correct passive-voice form of the sentence: The inquiry committee asked the treasurer to produce the audited accounts by Friday.
7Statement 1: In the sentence 'The minister is said to have cleared the file', the passive construction reports an opinion or claim without naming the speaker. Statement 2: In such reporting-passive structures, the infinitive after 'said' must always be in the simple present form, whatever the time of the reported action. Choose the correct option.
8Choose the most appropriate passive construction of the given sentence: Everyone knows the facts of the case very well.
9Which option is an incorrect passive-voice transformation of this sentence? The curator must not allow visitors to photograph the fragile manuscripts.
10Choose the most appropriate option for the passive form of the sentence below: They rang the church bells as a flood warning.
11Choose the sentence that correctly changes the given active sentence into the passive voice: The vice-chancellor allowed the delegation to inspect the sealed records.
12In the following item, identify the sentence that is an incorrect passive transformation of the given active sentence: The editor said, 'The reviewers have returned the monograph with annotations.'
13The editor made the correspondent substantiate every allegation. Which statement about converting this sentence into the passive voice is incorrect?
14Choose the correct option: They made me laugh. (Change into passive voice)
15Read the statements and choose the correct option. Statement 1: The sentence 'The auditor made the treasurer produce the vouchers' can be passivised as 'The treasurer was made to produce the vouchers by the auditor.' Statement 2: When 'make' is used in the active voice with an object and a bare infinitive, its passive form normally takes 'to + infinitive'. Statement 3: The sentence 'The auditor made the vouchers produced by the treasurer' is the correct passive form of the original sentence.