Switch the Spotlight: Active vs Passive Voice for Class 7

This worksheet helps Class 7 learners build a solid understanding of active and passive voice. Through structured transformation tasks and paragraph-level writing, students learn to switch between voices confidently while maintaining correct verb tense and sentence structure.

Why Active and Passive Voice Matter in Grammar?

Voice determines how actions and actors are expressed in sentences. For Class 7 learners, mastering voice usage is important because:
1. It supports clarity and variety in writing.
2. It enables better sentence transformation for grammar exams.
3. It introduces students to formal and report-style constructions.
4. It strengthens control over verb tenses and sentence structures.

What’s Inside This Worksheet?

This worksheet offers six engaging activities for mastering voice:

🧠 Exercise 1 – Identify the Voice
Students underline the verb phrase and label the sentence as active or passive.

✏️ Exercise 2 – Sort by Voice Type
Learners read sentences and categorize them into active or passive voice groups.

📋 Exercise 3 & 4 – Fill in the Blank + Error Correction
Part A asks students to complete sentences using the correct voice. Part B requires them to fix common mistakes in passive constructions.

📝 Exercise 5 – Transform Sentences Between Voices
Students rewrite sentences from active to passive or vice versa, across different tenses.

📚 Exercise 6 – Paragraph Writing with Voice Switching
Students write a paragraph using both voices across multiple tenses, including one modal verb in the passive voice.

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Voice Identification
1. is painting – Active
2. has been completed – Passive
3. were taught – Passive
4. will deliver – Active
5. will be done – Passive
6. had prepared – Active
7. was being told – Passive
8. bake – Active
9. is baked – Passive
10. was written – Passive

Exercise 2 – Sentence Sorting

Active Voice:
- I wash the dishes every evening.
- They are baking a cake.
- He paints beautiful landscapes.

Passive Voice:
- The homework was completed on time.
- She can be trusted with the task.
- The gates were locked by the guard.
- The mail will be delivered by noon.
- The window might be broken.
- The message had been sent already.
- The cake must be kept in the fridge.

Exercise 3 – Fill in the Blanks              Exercise 4 – Sentence Correction
1. caught                                             1. The song sung by the choir was lovely.
2. will be sent                                      2. The cake eaten by the kids was delicious.
3. clean                                                3. He wrote a letter to his pen-pal.
4. was sung                                         4. The keys were lost by her.
5. will be served                                  5. A gift was given to me by my cousin.
6. is memorized                                  6. The lights are turned off by the janitor.
7. completes                                       7. The story told by the grandmother was fun.
8. had been eaten                               8. Homework is being done by the students.
9. were                                                9. The project prepared by the group is ready.
10. was baked                                   10. The cake was baked by grandma yesterday.

Exercise 5 – Sentence Transformations
1. The classroom is cleaned every day by them.
2. She recited the poem.
3. The assignment will be completed by him.
4. The guard opened the windows.
5. The fence is being painted by her.
6. The librarian arranged the books.
7. Football was being played by the kids.
8. The choir is singing the song.
9. The email had been written by me.
10. He solved the problem.

Exercise 6 – Sample Paragraph
I am writing a story for our school magazine. The title was chosen by my teacher. Every student will submit one piece. A prize might be awarded to the best entry. I wrote the draft last night, and it was reviewed by my elder sister. We will submit the stories by tomorrow.

Includes:
- Active voice: I am writing, I wrote, we will submit
- Passive voice: was chosen, might be awarded, was reviewed
- Modal + Passive: might be awarded
- Tense variety: present continuous, past simple, future simple, present perfect

Develop confident sentence transformation skills with this Class 7 worksheet on active and passive voice—perfect for grammar mastery and storytelling flexibility!
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