Topic MCQs · English
20 MCQs on Active & Passive Voice sit in the GK360 bank, collected from 13 solved papers (2019–2026). Below are the top 20 distinct questions — repeats across papers merged into their strongest version — with the correct answer marked, an explanation where the bank carries one, and the source paper named on every card.
Correct Answer: To whom was the lesson read by you?
The correct answer is To whom was the lesson read by you?, as asked in this question on Active & Passive Voice.
From: English Grammar Compulsory (PMS) Past Paper 2026 Solved (2026) · PPSC
Correct Answer: Your precious time must not be wasted by you
The correct answer is Your precious time must not be wasted by you, as asked in this question on Active & Passive Voice.
From: English Grammar Compulsory (PMS) Past Paper 2026 Solved (2026) · PPSC
Correct Answer: A car will be bought by her if she has three million rupees
The correct answer is A car will be bought by her if she has three million rupees, as asked in this question on Active & Passive Voice.
From: English Grammar Compulsory (PMS) Past Paper 2026 Solved (2026) · PPSC
Correct Answer: Did anyone ask you any question?
The correct answer is Did anyone ask you any question?, as asked in this question on Active & Passive Voice.
From: English Grammar Compulsory (PMS) Past Paper 2026 Solved (2026) · PPSC
Correct Answer: Let him not be paid anything
The correct answer is Let him not be paid anything, as asked in this question on Active & Passive Voice.
From: English Grammar Compulsory (PMS) Past Paper 2026 Solved (2026) · PPSC
Correct Answer: Were the clothes ironed by her?
The sentence is in the past simple tense. To change it to passive voice, we use 'Were' + past participle.
From: PPSC Superintendent BS-17 Past Paper 2026 Solved (2026) · PPSC
Correct Answer: A mistake seems to have been made by you
In passive construction for 'seem to have made', the verb structure shifts to 'seem to have been made'.
From: PPSC Superintendent BS-17 Past Paper 2026 Solved (2026) · PPSC
Correct Answer: None of these
The proper passive structure would be 'You are said to have done it' or 'It is said that you did it'.
From: PPSC Assistant Food Controller (BS-15) Past Paper 2023 Solved (2023) · PPSC
Correct Answer: Please be seated.
The passive form of a command or request like 'Please take your seat' is concisely expressed as 'Please be seated.'
From: PPSC Canal Patwari Past Paper 2023 (Paper 2) Solved (2023) · PPSC
Correct Answer: Breakfast is made by Tara at 6 am.
To convert present indefinite tense to passive voice, use 'is/am/are' + past participle. 'Makes' becomes 'is made'.
From: PPSC Junior Clerk (BS-11) Past Paper 2023 Solved (2023) · PPSC
Correct Answer: Mosquitos are bred by the rainy season.
In passive voice, the plural object 'mosquitos' takes the plural verb 'are', followed by the past participle 'bred'.
From: PPSC Junior Clerk (BS-11) Past Paper 2023 Solved (2023) · PPSC
Correct Answer: By whom was a car designed?
To convert an interrogative active sentence starting with 'Who' in past indefinite, it changes to 'By whom' followed by the auxiliary verb 'was/were', then the subject, and finally the past participle.
From: PPSC Assistant Director Admin (Home Department) Past Paper 2022 Solved (2022) · PPSC
Correct Answer: Killed
In a passive voice construction ('was + past participle'), the correct verb form is the past participle 'killed'.
From: PPSC Tehsildar & Consolidation Officer Past Paper 2021 (English Solved) (2021) · PPSC
Correct Answer: The plants were being watered by her.
To convert past continuous to passive voice, the structure used is 'Object + was/were + being + V3 + by + Subject'.
From: PPSC Tehsildar & Consolidation Officer Past Paper 2021 (English Solved) (2021) · PPSC
Correct Answer: The mouse was chased by the cat
The past simple active sentence converts to past simple passive: Object + was/were + past participle + by Subject.
From: PPSC Assistant BS-16 Finance Department Past Paper 2020 Solved (2020) · PPSC
Correct Answer: Are the thieves being chased by them?
For the present continuous interrogative sentence 'Are they chasing the thieves?', the passive transformation is 'Are the thieves being chased by them?'.
From: PPSC Personal Assistant & Assistant (S&GAD) Past Paper 2020 Solved (2020) · PPSC
Correct Answer: The hat was chosen by the child
The active sentence is in the simple past tense. The passive equivalent uses 'was' + past participle ('chosen').
From: PPSC Assistant S&GAD Past Paper 2019 Solved (2019) · PPSC
Correct Answer: The visitors were shown the historical monuments of Lahore
The object 'the visitors' becomes the subject, 'showed' changes to 'were shown', preserving the past tense.
From: PPSC Deputy Accountant (BS-16) Finance Department Past Paper 2019 (Paper 2) Solved (2019) · PPSC
Correct Answer: Is a letter written by her?
In transforming from active to passive voice, simple present interrogative shifts to 'Is/Are + Object + Past Participle + by + Subject'.
From: PPSC Deputy Accountant (BS-16) Finance Department Past Paper 2019 Solved (2019) · PPSC
Correct Answer: I had hoped that my locker would be fixed while I was away, but it wasn't.
The passive construction changes 'they would fix my locker' to 'my locker would be fixed', shifting focus away from the doer.
From: PPSC Junior Clerk S&GAD Past Paper 2019 Solved (2019) · PPSC
The bank holds 20 questions tagged "Active & Passive Voice" under English, drawn from 13 solved papers (2019–2026). After merging the same question asked in multiple papers, 20 are distinct; this page shows the top 20.
They are pulled from the solved papers in the GK360 archive — PPSC papers among them — and every card on this page names its source paper and year, so you can open the full paper from the Past Papers archive.
Yes — 20 of the 20 questions shown carry a written explanation under the answer; the rest show the verified correct answer for revision. Every answer passed GK360's three-way check (printed key, worked material, standard fact).
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