Learner states what the passive changes — the subject, not the formality — and converts between the two voices without changing the facts.
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Seven parts, and the by-phrase may not be needed.
Build the passive version of *The ministry collected the data across four regions in 2019.* Use every part.
Six pairs. One answer is wrong every single time.
The council cut services. → Services were cut by the council. What changed?
What changes, what does not, and when you reach for it.
The council cut services.
Services were cut by the council.
Same facts. Same tense. Same information.
The only difference is which participant sits in the subject slot.
Same table, same people, different seating.
Nothing has been added or removed. Somebody has been moved.
Twelve sentences, six of each.
Sort each item into the correct category
Write one fact twice, then say which you would use.
Pick any fact about a policy, a study or an event.
Box 1: write it in the active, then in the passive. Box 2: which would you use — and what would the paragraph have to be about for the other one to be right?
Two lines.
One or two sentences.