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Grade 9 · English as a foreign language

English as a foreign language quiz for grade 9: The passive voice

This quiz helps revise “The passive voice” in English as a foreign language for grade 9. It has 25 questions in five categories: Build the form, Tense matters, Focus and agent, Modal passives, Fix the error. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 14–15
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: The passive voice

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Build the form

  1. 100Picture for the question

    “The room ___ every day.” Use the Present Simple passive of the verb meaning “make clean”.

  2. 200

    “The bridge ___ in 2010.” Use the Past Simple passive of the verb meaning “construct”.

  3. 300

    “The road ___ now.”…

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  4. 400

    “My bike ___.” Use…

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  5. 500

    “The work ___ before…

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Tense matters

  1. 100

    “They deliver letters every morning.” Which tense should stay the same when you make it passive?

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    “They closed the museum yesterday.” Which tense should stay the same in the passive?

  3. 300

    “They will open the…

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  4. 400

    “They are decorating the…

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  5. 500

    “They have published the…

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Focus and agent

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which preposition normally introduces the doer when the agent is named in a passive sentence?

  2. 200

    Which part of a passive sentence is usually left out when the doer is unknown or unimportant?

  3. 300

    In “The chef cooked…

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  4. 400

    In “Mia gave Tom…

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  5. 500

    With a verb like…

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Modal passives

  1. 100

    “Helmets must ___ here.” Use the passive form of the verb meaning “have on your body”.

  2. 200

    “The problem can ___.” Use the passive form of the verb meaning “find the answer to”.

  3. 300

    “The report should ___…

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  4. 400

    “Pets must not ___…

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  5. 500

    “The file ___ during…

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Fix the error

  1. 100Picture for the question

    “The cake was ___ yesterday.” Use the irregular verb meaning “create” in the correct form.

  2. 200

    “The emails ___ sent daily.” Which form of be is needed for a plural subject?

  3. 300

    “The room is ___…

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  4. 400

    “The parcel arrived yesterday.”…

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  5. 500

    “He was laughed ___…

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