Section 4 / Lesson 1 - The Passive Voice
Below you will find questions to practice the use of passive voice in IELTS Writing Task One. Using the study notes and the class video, you should be able to answer these questions to practice the language, and then be able to use the language in your IELTS writing test. The answers to all the questions are available to Patreon supporters as a means to support this website and Youtube Channel. Please find them here.
The passive voice form
Turn these active sentences into passive voice
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1. The wind turns the blades.
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2. The blades rotate the shaft that goes to the gearbox.
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3. The generator produces electricity using the movement of the shaft.
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4. A high-voltage cable transfers the electricity to a transformer, which is next to the wind turbine.
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5. Can you turn this sentence into an active voice sentence? Why / Why not?
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Electricity is sent over cables to the customer's local area.
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6. Can you turn this sentence a passive voice sentence? Why / Why not?
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Electricity flows over cables to the customer's local area.
Transitive Vs. Intransitive Verbs
Sort these verbs into transitive and intransitive.
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7. to go
8. to grow
9. to hatch
10. to emerge
11. to appear
12. to lose
13. to shrink
14. to have
15. to form
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16. Use each of the verbs to write a passive or active voice sentence about the example question.
Tense choice
Convert this active voice sentence into passive voice using the following tenses:
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"The customers use the 110-volt electricity."
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17. present simple
18. past simple
19. future simple
20. present perfect
21. past perfect.
22. present continuous
23. with the model verb 'can'
Overall
24. Fix the mistakes in the following paragraph:
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Firstly, the egg hatches the tadpole which has gills. The tail is gotten bigger by the tadpole and then two legs are emerged. Following this, the frog was developed lungs which allow it to breathe air and live out of the water. The frog forms two front legs and the tail is shrunk.