Worksheet for all the Passive Verb Tenses

(TESOL Worksheets--Passives)

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I was teaching out of a textbook that contained several exercises on the passives, and seemed to assume that students already knew how to form the passive with a variety of verb tenses.  So, just to confirm that my students knew all the passive verb formations, I made this worksheet here.

It's actually basically the same format as a worksheet I had previously made up here.  But the passive verbs are deleted, so that the students have to try to think of the verb form themselves, and then they check their answer with the answer sheet to confirm their guesses.  (Again, the assumption here is that they've already encountered some of the these forms before, so this worksheet is just review.  Although it could also be used as an introduction in a test-teach-test lesson.)

Write in the passive tenses

aspect	voice	infinitive	past tense	present tense	future tense
simple	active	to eat	he ate pizza	he eats pizza	he will eat pizza
	passive
continuous	active	to be eating	he was eating pizza	he is eating pizza	he will be eating pizza
	passive
perfect	active	to have eaten	he had eaten pizza	he has eaten pizza	he will have eaten pizza
	passive
perfect continuous	active	to have been eating	he had been eating pizza	he has been eating pizza	he will have been eating pizza
	passive

answers

aspect	voice	infinitive	past tense	present tense	future tense
simple	active	to eat	he ate pizza	he eats pizza	he will eat pizza
	passive	to be eaten	pizza was eaten	pizza is eaten	pizza will be eaten
continuous	active	to be eating	he was eating pizza	he is eating pizza	he will be eating pizza
	passive	to be being eaten	pizza was being eaten	pizza is being eaten	pizza will be being eaten
perfect	active	to have eaten	he had eaten pizza	he has eaten pizza	he will have eaten pizza
	passive	to have been eaten	pizza had been eaten	pizza has been eaten	pizza will have been eaten
perfect continuous	active	to have been eating	he had been eating pizza	he has been eating pizza	he will have been eating pizza
	passive	to have been being eaten	pizza had been being eaten	pizza has been being eaten	pizza will have been being eaten