ACTIVE OR PASSIVE?

Read the following sentences and mark active or passive.

1. People are watching TV. _______________________

2. Susan was given a beautiful dress for her birthday. __________________
3. Mary reads the newspaper everyday. _____________________________
4. The newspaper is being written at this moment. ____________________
5. A postman delivers letters. ________________________
6. The trees have been cut down. _____________________
7. The door is being painted. ________________________
8. They are building a new road. _____________________
9. The bridge was built last year. _____________________
10. The teacher is explaining the passive voice. ____________________
11. The students aren’t listening to the teacher. ____________________
12. Mary and John were arrested last week. _______________________
13. The police put criminals in prison. ___________________________
14. The flowers will be watered by grandma. _____________________
15. Toyotas are made in Japan. ________________________________
16. Cows don’t eat meat. _____________________________________
17. Peter had been promised a job. _____________________________
18. Good students are praised by their teachers. ________________
19. Mary’s sister has been writing a new novel. ___________________
20. Shakespeare wrote many plays. _____________________________
21. India was discovered by Vasco da Gama. _____________________
22. Grammar is rejected by the students. _________________________
23. I was hurt by my best friend. _______________________________
24. The glasses were broken by Mary. ___________________________
25. Parents punish their children. _______________________________