Passive Voice MCQ Test With Answers + PDF Exercise 2

Both verbs are passive: someone told me, and someone would meet me. After a past reporting verb (was told), the future idea moves back in time, so we use should/would be met. Not am told / was met, because the meeting is still in the future.

This is a general fact, so we use the present simple passive: am/is/are + past participle. The subject heroes is plural, so the verb is are remembered. Not is remembered, because that is for a singular subject.

By the time + a past action shows that something else happened earlier. For the earlier action we use the past perfect passive: had been + past participle → had been sold. Not were sold, because the books were already gone before we arrived.

Just shows that an action has finished a very short time ago, so we use the present perfect passive: has been + past participle → it has just been painted. The paint is still wet, so the result is important now. Not is being painted, because just here points to a finished action.

Often shows a repeated action, so we use the present simple passive: are + past participle → are often published. Not are being published, because the continuous form is for an action happening right now, not a habit.

Both actions are finished and happened in the past (in 1950), and other people did them to the prisoner. So we need the past simple passive twice: was transferred / was released. Not has been released, because the present perfect cannot be used with a finished past time like in 1950.

The sentence tells two past actions in order (in the morning … in the afternoon), so we use the past simple. Someone gave me the card, so it is passive: I was given. Not were given, because with I we use was.

After I hope, we often talk about the future with will. The book cannot find something; someone will find it, so we use the future passive: will be found. Not will find, because that is active.

Tomorrow shows the future. Someone will ask me, so we use the future passive: shall/will be + past participle → I shall be asked about this film. The other options do not make a correct sentence with about this film tomorrow.

Every year shows a regular action, so we use the present simple passive. The subject new schools is plural, so we need are built. Not is built, because that is for one thing.

This is a saying about a general truth, so we use the present simple. People don't believe the liar, so it is passive: isn't believed. Not don't believe, because the liar is not the person who believes.

Send for someone means to ask them to come. Just shows a very recent action, so we use the present perfect passive: has just been sent for. Not has / sent, because that is active and would mean the doctor sent for someone.

This year is a time period that is not finished, so we use the present perfect passive: has been built. The subject a theatre is singular, so we need has, not have. Not has built, because the theatre did not build anything.

Great Expectations is the title of one book, so it is singular. Dickens wrote it in the past, so we use the past simple passive: was written. Not were written, because the title is one book, even though Expectations looks plural.

In 1969 shows a finished past time. People launched the spaceships, so we use the past simple passive: were launched. Not launched, because that is active and would mean the spaceships launched something.

By the time we get there means before a future moment, so we use the future perfect. The papers will be destroyed by someone, so it is passive: will have been destroyed. Not will be destroyed, because that does not show that the action will be finished before we arrive.

Next year shows the future, so we use the future passive: will be + past participle → will be closed. Not has been closed or was closed, because they do not talk about the future.

This is a well-known saying. Work is uncountable, so it takes a singular verb: is never done (present simple passive). Not are, because work is not plural.

Here sent is a past participle with a passive meaning: a telegram sent by my sister = a telegram which was sent by my sister. Not was sent, because the sentence already has a main verb (received).

Yet in a negative sentence goes with the present perfect. Someone gives Ann the test, so it is passive: haven't been given. Not hadn't been given, because Ann is speaking directly about now, not about an earlier past time.