Transform with Ease: Passive Voice Power-Up for Class 8 

This Grade 8 grammar worksheet titled Voice – Passive Voice (All Tenses and Modals) helps students learn how to convert active sentences into passive voice with clarity and precision. Through guided examples and scaffolded exercises, learners practise rewriting sentences across all tenses as well as modal verb structures. The worksheet equips students to shift focus smoothly from the doer to the receiver of an action—an essential academic skill.

Students develop confidence in expressing ideas in clear, formal, and well-structured sentences while strengthening their command over English grammar through active-to-passive transformation drills. 

Why Passive Voice Matters in Grammar? 

Mastering the passive voice helps students create polished, balanced, and objective writing. For Grade 8 learners, this skill is crucial because: 
1. It builds flexibility in transforming sentences across tenses and modals. 
2. It improves clarity and formality in academic and report writing. 
3. It supports summarizing information without focusing on the doer. 
4. It strengthens communication needed in essays, articles, dialogue, and exam answers. 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

This worksheet provides step-by-step exercises covering all important forms and uses of passive voice:

🧠 Exercise 1 – Identify the Voice 
Students label each sentence as active or passive to build foundational recognition.

✏️ Exercise 2 – Multiple-Choice Questions 
Learners choose correct passive voice transformations for simple, perfect, continuous, modal, and future structures.

📝 Exercise 3 – Sentence Rewriting 
Students rewrite each sentence accurately in the required passive form—future, perfect, continuous, modal perfect, and more.

📚 Exercise 4 – Fill in the Blanks 
Students complete a detailed science fair passage using suitable passive words, reinforcing comprehension and grammar.

🗒️ Exercise 5 – Paragraph Writing 
Learners write a short paragraph using passive forms across different tenses.

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators) 

Exercise 1 – Active or Passive 
1. Active 
2. Active 
3. Passive 
4. Active 
5. Passive
6. Active 
7. Active 
8. Active 
9. Passive 
10. Active 

Exercise 2 – Multiple-Choice Answers 
1. a 
2. c 
3. c 
4. b 
5. a 
6. c 
7. a 
8. c 
9. a 
10. b 

Exercise 3 – Sentence Rewriting Samples 
1. Future Simple Passive – The data will be analyzed by the researchers. 
2. Present Continuous Passive – The bridge is being repaired across the river. 
3. Past Continuous Passive – The suspect was being questioned by the police. 
4. Present Perfect Passive – The training session has been completed by the team. 
5. Modal Perfect Passive – The evidence might have been damaged by someone. 
6. Simple Present Passive – The blueprint is designed by the architect every year. 
7. Past Perfect Passive – The budget had been finalized by the committee last week. 
8. Present Perfect Continuous Passive – The exhibition has been being prepared by the students. 
9. Modal Passive – Better policies should be implemented by the company. 
10. Future Simple Passive – Relief material will be distributed by the volunteers. 

Exercise 4 – Fill in the Blanks (Sample Answers) 
participation 
judges 
given 
awarded 
uploaded 
featured 
granted 
organized 
supervised 
provided 

Exercise 5 – Paragraph Writing 
Answers may vary.

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