Active or Passive? Choose the Correct Verb Form. 1. When I came to the party, Nick (had already been gone/had already gone) home. 2. “Can I help you, madam?” “No, thank you. I (am serving/am being served). Put the Verbs in Brackets into the Correct Passive Form. 3. Wait a little! Your problem (discuss) now. 4. My house (paint) the whole day yesterday. 5. Tomorrow by 5 o`clock everything (prepare). 6. Where is my bike? It (repair) now. 7. Apples should (eat) every day. 8. It is very dark. Nothing can (see).

When I came to the party, Nick had already gone home.

• Correct form: had already gone. This is a past perfect form, showing that Nick left before the speaker arrived.

“Can I help you, madam?” “No, thank you. I am being served.”

• Correct form: am being served. This is the passive voice, indicating that someone is serving the speaker.

Wait a little! Your problem is being discussed now.

• Correct passive form: is being discussed. The present continuous passive form indicates that the discussion is happening at the moment.

My house was being painted the whole day yesterday.

• Correct passive form: was being painted. This is the past continuous passive form, indicating an action happening over a period of time in the past.

Tomorrow by 5 o'clock everything will have been prepared.

• Correct passive form: will have been prepared. This is the future perfect passive, showing that by a future time, everything will have been prepared.

Where is my bike? It is being repaired now.

• Correct passive form: is being repaired. This is the present continuous passive form, indicating the bike is being repaired at the moment.

Apples should be eaten every day.

• Correct passive form: be eaten. This is the passive voice in the present simple, indicating something that should happen regularly.

It is very dark. Nothing can be seen.

• Correct passive form: be seen. This is the passive voice, where the action (seeing) is happening but there is no agent specified.