🔄Word Order – Active ↔ Passive
🎯B2 Level ESL Exercise - Voice Transformation
💡Reorder the words and rewrite the sentence in the opposite voice (active → passive or passive → active). Pay attention to verb tenses and word order.
💭Remember:
- Active to Passive: Object becomes subject + be + past participle + by + agent
- Passive to Active: Agent becomes subject + active verb + object
- Keep the same tense when transforming voices
1️⃣Exercise 1
Active: yesterday / painted / the walls / workers / the
Rewrite in: Passive Voice
✓ Correct answer: The walls were painted by the workers yesterday.
2️⃣Exercise 2
Active: didn't / send / the manager / the documents
Rewrite in: Passive Voice
✓ Correct answer: The documents were not sent by the manager.
3️⃣Exercise 3
Active (Question): when / the police / catch / the thief / did
Rewrite in: Passive Voice
✓ Correct answer: When was the thief caught by the police?
4️⃣Exercise 4
Passive: discovered / was / by scientists / new planet / a
Rewrite in: Active Voice
✓ Correct answer: Scientists discovered a new planet.
5️⃣Exercise 5
Passive (Negative): was not / finished / by the students / the homework
Rewrite in: Active Voice
✓ Correct answer: The students did not finish the homework.
6️⃣Exercise 6
Passive (Question): invented / telephone / the / who / was / by
Rewrite in: Active Voice
✓ Correct answer: Who invented the telephone?
7️⃣Exercise 7
Active: in the city / built / they / last year / a new hospital
Rewrite in: Passive Voice
✓ Correct answer: A new hospital was built in the city last year.
8️⃣Exercise 8
Active (Negative): people / didn't / the accident / see
Rewrite in: Passive Voice
✓ Correct answer: The accident wasn't seen by people.
9️⃣Exercise 9
Passive (Question): be / tomorrow / will / results / the / announced
Rewrite in: Active Voice
✓ Correct answer: Will they announce the results tomorrow?
🔟Exercise 10
Passive: being repaired / is / the car / in the garage / now
Rewrite in: Active Voice
✓ Correct answer: They are repairing the car in the garage now.
Review the correct answers shown in green below each exercise!