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SSC CGL Passive Voice — practice questions

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English passive voice is formed using be or get with which verb form?Read the answer and worked solution →In a passive sentence, the receiver of the action is called theRead the answer and worked solution →Choose the passive form of: Brutus stabbed Caesar.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the passive form of: Our troops defeated the enemy.Read the answer and worked solution →Why is The window was broken ambiguous?Read the answer and worked solution →Three stores were robbed last night. Why is the passive used?Read the answer and worked solution →In A new cancer drug has been discovered, the agent is left out because it isRead the answer and worked solution →Which preposition usually introduces the agent in a passive clause?Read the answer and worked solution →Passive of: John gave Mary a book (promoting the indirect object).Read the answer and worked solution →Passive of: John gave a book to Mary.Read the answer and worked solution →Passive of: They talked about the problem.Read the answer and worked solution →A passive that promotes a preposition's object is calledRead the answer and worked solution →Passive of: Someone has slept in this bottom bunk.Read the answer and worked solution →Passive of: People have taken advantage of me.Read the answer and worked solution →The food is being served is in which passive form?Read the answer and worked solution →The stadium will have been built by next January is in which form?Read the answer and worked solution →In It isn't nice to be insulted, to be insulted is aRead the answer and worked solution →Passive of: They say that he cheats (using the infinitive).Read the answer and worked solution →Passive of: They report that she came back.Read the answer and worked solution →Passive of: They made Jane attend classes.Read the answer and worked solution →Passive of: We expect you to complete the project.Read the answer and worked solution →Your car needs washing means the same asRead the answer and worked solution →Mistakes occurred is in which voice?Read the answer and worked solution →A long agent phrase is often placed after the verb by using theRead the answer and worked solution →Mistakes have been made is often criticised because itRead the answer and worked solution →In She was relieved to find her car, relieved works as a(n)Read the answer and worked solution →Passive of: People know his identity.Read the answer and worked solution →Get known, as a passive, meansRead the answer and worked solution →The English passive, compared with the active, is generallyRead the answer and worked solution →Which sentence is a passive in an interrogative clause?Read the answer and worked solution →

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English passive voice is formed using be or get with which verb form?

  1. A gerund form used
  2. A present participle
  3. A bare infinitive
  4. A past participle
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Correct answer: D. A past participle

English builds the passive from the auxiliary be or get followed by the past participle of the main verb.

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In a passive sentence, the receiver of the action is called the

  1. Agent
  2. Modifier
  3. Complement
  4. Patient
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Correct answer: D. Patient

The one who undergoes the action is the patient, while the doer is the agent.

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Choose the passive form of: Brutus stabbed Caesar.

  1. Caesar has stabbed Brutus.
  2. Caesar is stabbed by Brutus.
  3. Brutus was stabbed by Caesar.
  4. Caesar was stabbed by Brutus.
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Correct answer: D. Caesar was stabbed by Brutus.

The object Caesar becomes the subject and the past tense is kept as was stabbed, with the agent after by.

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