Voice Shift Mastery: Active and Passive Sentences Across All Tenses for Class 8

This Class 8 worksheet helps learners strengthen grammar accuracy by practicing active and passive voice across all tenses. With tasks like matching, multiple choice, rewriting, error correction, and sentence writing, students learn to transform sentences confidently while understanding how meaning and focus shift between subject and object.

Why Active and Passive Voice Matters in Grammar?  

This worksheet helps learners:  
1. Recognize active and passive voice forms across simple, continuous, perfect, and perfect continuous tenses.  
2. Practice converting sentences from active to passive and vice versa without altering meaning.  
3. Avoid common voice errors in academic writing and speech.  
4. Build confidence in using flexible sentence structures.

What’s Inside This Worksheet?  

This worksheet includes five practice-based activities:

Exercise 1 – Match the Sentences  
Students match active voice sentences like *The teacher has given homework* with passive forms like *Homework has been given by the teacher*.

Exercise 2 – Multiple Choice Questions  
Learners choose the correct active voice for given passive ones, e.g., *The homework was completed by Sam* → *Sam completed the homework*.

Exercise 3 – Rewrite into Passive  
Students change active voice sentences into passive, e.g., *The committee will review the plan tomorrow* → *The plan will be reviewed by the committee tomorrow*.

Exercise 4 – Rewrite into Active  
Learners convert passive voice sentences back into active, e.g., *The homework was done by the children* → *The children did the homework*.

Exercise 5 – Sentence Writing  
Students write five original passive sentences and then convert them into active.

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Match the Sentences  
1-b. Homework has been given by the teacher.  
2-h. The village was destroyed by the storm.  
3-f. A charity event is being organized by us.  
4-j. A dam had been built on the river by them.  
5-e. An article will be being written by her.  
6-g. Football is being played by the kids.  
7-h. The speech was delivered by him.  
8-c. The project will have been completed by them.  

Exercise 2 – MCQs  
1-b. Sam completed the homework.  
2-b. Anita wrote the letter.  
3-b. Our team won the match.  
4-c. The gardener watered the plants.  
5-a. The old man told the story.  
6-b. The children sang the song.  
7-c. The student read the book.  
8-b. The police caught the thief.  

Exercise 3 – Active → Passive  
1. The plan will be reviewed by the committee tomorrow.  
2. Dinner is being prepared by her right now.  
3. A dam was built by the workers.  
4. The assignment has been finished by them.  
5. A poem had been written by him.  
6. The final match will be played by the team.  
7. A play is being watched by us.  
8. Stories are told by her every evening.  
9. The puzzle will have been solved by them by evening.  
10. The room was being cleaned by him.  

Exercise 4 – Passive → Active  
1. The children did the homework.  
2. Sita wrote the letter.  
3. The student recited the poem.  
4. Mother baked the cake.  
5. The police caught the thief.  
6. The farmer ploughed the field.  
7. The students decorated the classroom.  
8. The carpenter repaired the chair.  
9. Anita won the prize.  
10. The principal delivered the speech.  

Exercise 5 – Sample Sentences (Answers will vary)  
Passive: The book was read by Ravi. → Active: Ravi read the book.  
Passive: The window was opened by the wind. → Active: The wind opened the window.  
Passive: The room was cleaned by the maid. → Active: The maid cleaned the room.  
Passive: The match will be played by the team. → Active: The team will play the match.  
Passive: The flowers were watered by Anu. → Active: Anu watered the flowers.  

Help your child master sentence transformation across all tenses — an essential skill for clear and effective communication!  

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