Passive Voice For Simple Past Tense


 
 
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Passive Voice For Simple Past Tense

Conversion of Active Voice Sentence into Passive Voice For Simple Past Tense:

Rule used to identify that the sentence is in Active Voice form with simple past tense is:

 you use was or were + past participle:

subject + second form of verb + object.

  • The army built this bridge. (active)
  • Here,the subject is ' the army',object is 'this bridge' and 'built' is second form of verb 'build'.

    While converting into Passive Voice the rule will be :

     subject + was/were + third form of verb + by + object.

  • This bridge was built by the army.(passive)
  • The given subject 'the army' will become object and the object 'this bridge' will become subject.Helping verb (was/were) will be used according to subject.If subject is singular then was will use or if subject is plural then were will use.'by' is used according rule.

    Sample Questions
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    Question : 1

    Active: Over 300000 students took the college entrance exam.     

    Passive: The college entrance exam  __________  by over 300000 students. 

    Right Option : D
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    Question : 2

    Active: A famous author wrote these letters.    

    Passive: These letters  __________  by a famous author. 

    Right Option : B
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    Question : 3

    Change into passive voice.

    Active : The hunter aimed at the bird.

    Right Option : A
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