Sometimes, we need to change the passive voice of interrogative sentences either in exams or in practical situations. This article provides a complete and comprehensive guide about how to change the active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences followed by examples.
Basically, the structure of an interrogative sentence is as follows –
Auxilary verb + subject + main verb + object/remaining part of the sentences?
For Example,
Do you eat rice?
To change into the Passive voice of the interrogative sentence, We must analyze the tense, form, and voice of the given sentence, i.e., ‘Do you eat rice?
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After examining the given sentence, it is clear to us that the sentence is in simple present tense and active voice.
Change into Passive Voice of Interrogative Sentences
To change the active voice into the passive voice of an interrogative sentence, we must follow the simple steps.
1st Step
Change the interrogative sentence of active voice into an assertive/declarative sentence. For example,
- Interrogative: Do you eat rice?
- Assertive/Declarative: You eat rice.
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2nd step
Change the assertive/declarative sentence of active voice into passive voice according to the rules.
- Assertive/Declarative (Active voice): You eat rice.
- Assertive/Declarative (Passive voice): Rice is eaten by you.
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3rd step
Change the Assertive/Declarative/positive (Passive voice) into an interrogative sentence
- Assertive/Declarative/positive (Passive voice): Rice is eaten by me.
- Interrogative (Passive voice): Is rice eaten by me?
Finally, the answer of the passive voice of the interrogative sentence, ‘Do you eat rice?‘ is ‘Is rice eaten by you?‘
- Active voice: Do you eat rice?’
- Passive voice: Is rice eaten by you?
Now, we will explore interrogative sentences in the passive voice in all tenses along with the interrogative sentences beginning with the ‘wh-words’
Interrogative Sentence Passive Voice of Present Tense
Passive Voice of Interrogative Sentences can be of four types. All structures and examples are discussed below.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence of simple present Tense.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence structures and examples of simple present Tense are as follows.
Structure
Am/Is/Are + subject + verb (past-participle form) + by + object?
Example:
| Active Voice | Do/Does | Subject | Verb | Object? |
| Does he play football? | Does | he | play | football? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Am/Is/Are | subject | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Is football played by him? | Is | football | played | by | him? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of simple present Tense. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences.
Active: Do I eat rice?
Passive: Is eaten by me?
Active: Does he beat you?
Passive: Are you beaten by you?
Active: Do you make noise?
Passive: Is noise made by you?
Active: Do they watch the movie?
Passive: Is the movie watched by them?
Active: Do we get the job?
Passive: Is the job got by us?
Passive voice Interrogative sentence of Present Continuous Tense.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence structures and examples of Present Continuous Tense are as follows.
Structure
Am/Is/Are + subject + being + verb (past-participle form) + by + object?
Example:
| Active Voice | Am/Is/Are | Subject | Verb + ing | Object? |
| Are they watching the movie? | Are | they | watching | the movie? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Am/Is/Are | subject | being | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Is the movie being watched by them? | Is | the movie | being | watched | by | them? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of Present Continuous Tense. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences.
Active: Are you eating rice?
Passive: Is rice being eaten by me?
Active: Is he writing a letter?
Passive: Is a letter being written by him?
Active: Is mother making a cake?
Passive: Is a cake being made by mother?
Active: Are they watching the movie?
Passive: Is the movie being watched by them?
Active: Are you catching fish?
Passive: Is fish being caught by you?
Passive voice Interrogative sentence of Present Perfect Tense.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence structures and examples of Present Perfect Tense are as follows.
Structure
Has/Have + subject + been + verb (past-participle form) + by + object?
Example:
| Active Voice | Has/Have | subject | verb (past-participle form) | object? |
| Have you seen the tiger? | Have | you | seen | the tiger? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Has/have | subject | been | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Has the tiger been seen by you? | Has | the tiger | been | seen | by | you? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of Present Perfect Tense. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences.
Active: Have you eaten rice?
Passive: Has rice been eaten by you?
Active: Has he written a letter?
Passive: Has a letter been written by him?
Active: Has mother made the cake?
Passive: Has the cake been made by mother?
Active: Have they watched the movie?
Passive: Has the movie been watched by them?
Active: Have you caught fish?
Passive: Has fish been caught by you?
Passive voice Interrogative sentence of Present Perfect Continuous Tense.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence structures and examples of Present Perfect Continuous Tense are as follows.
Structure
Has/Have + subject + been + verb (past-participle form) + by + object?
Example:
| Active Voice | Has/Have | subject | been | verb + ing | object? |
| Have you been eating rice? | Have | you | been | eating | rice? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Has/have | subject | been | being | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Has rice been being eaten by you? | Has | rice | been | being | eaten | by | you? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of Present Perfect Continuous Tense. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences.
Active: Have you been doing the job?
Passive: Has the job been being done by you?
Active: Has he been writing a letter?
Passive: Has a letter been being written by him?
Active: Has mother been making a cake?
Passive: Has a cake been being made by mother?
Active: Have they been watching the movie?
Passive: Has the movie been being watched by them?
Active: Have the fisherman been catching fish?
Passive: Has fish been being caught by the fisherman?
Interrogative Sentence Passive Voice of Past Tense
Passive Voice of Interrogative Sentences can be of four types. All structures and examples are discussed below.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence of simple past Tense.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence structures and examples of simple past Tense are as follows.
Structure
Was/Were + subject + verb (past-participle form) + by + object?
Example:
| Active Voice | Do/Does | Subject | Verb | Object? |
| Did he play football? | Did | he | play | football? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Was/Were | subject | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Was football played by him? | Was | football | played | by | him? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of simple past Tense. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences.
Active: Did I eat rice?
Passive: Was eaten by me?
Active: Did he beat you?
Passive: Were you beaten by you?
Active: Did you make noise?
Passive: Was noise made by you?
Active: Did they watch the movie?
Passive: Was the movie watched by them?
Active: Did we get the job?
Passive: Was the job got by us?
Passive voice Interrogative sentence of Past Continuous Tense.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence structures and examples of Past Continuous Tense are as follows.
Structure
Was/were + subject + being + verb (past-participle form) + by + object?
Example:
| Active Voice | Was/Were | Subject | Verb + ing | Object? |
| Were they watching the movie? | Were | they | watching | the movie? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Was/Were | subject | being | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Was the movie being watched by them? | Was | the movie | being | watched | by | them? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of Past Continuous Tense. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences.
Active: Were you eating rice?
Passive: Was rice being eaten by me?
Active: Was he writing a letter?
Passive: Was a letter being written by him?
Active: Was mother making a cake?
Passive: Was a cake being made by mother?
Active: Were they watching the movie?
Passive: Was the movie being watched by them?
Active: Were you catching fish?
Passive: Was fish being caught by you?
Passive voice Interrogative sentence of Past Perfect Tense.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence structures and examples of Present Perfect Tense are as follows.
Structure
Had + subject + been + verb (past-participle form) + by + object?
Example:
| Active Voice | Has/Have | subject | verb (past-participle form) | object? |
| Had you seen the tiger? | Had | you | seen | the tiger? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Has/have | subject | been | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Had the tiger been seen by you? | Had | the tiger | been | seen | by | you? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of Past Perfect Tense. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences.
Active: Had you eaten rice?
Passive: Had rice been eaten by you?
Active: Had he written a letter?
Passive: Had a letter been written by him?
Active: Had mother made the cake?
Passive: Had the cake been made by mother?
Active: Had they watched the movie?
Passive: Had the movie been watched by them?
Active: Had you caught fish?
Passive: Had fish been caught by you?
Passive voice Interrogative sentence of Past Perfect Continuous Tense.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence structures and examples of Past Perfect Continuous Tense are as follows.
Structure
Had + subject + been + verb (past-participle form) + by + object?
Example:
| Active Voice | Has/Have | subject | been | verb + ing | object? |
| Had you been eating rice? | Had | you | been | eating | rice? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Had | subject | been | being | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Had rice been being eaten by you? | Had | rice | been | being | eaten | by | you? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of Past Perfect Continuous Tense. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences.
Active: Had you been doing the job?
Passive: Had the job been being done by you?
Active: Had he been writing a letter?
Passive: Had a letter been being written by him?
Active: Had mother been making a cake?
Passive: Had a cake been being made by mother?
Active: Had they been watching the movie?
Passive: Had the movie been being watched by them?
Active: Had the fisherman been catching fish?
Passive: Had fish been being caught by the fisherman?
Interrogative Sentence Passive Voice of Future Tense
Passive Voice of Interrogative Sentences can be of four types. All structures and examples are discussed below.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence of Simple Future Tense.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence structures and examples of simple future Tense are as follows.
Structure
Shall/Will + subject + be + verb (past-participle form) + by + object?
Example:
| Active Voice | Shall/Will | Subject | Verb | Object? |
| Will he play football? | Will | he | play | football? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Shall/Will | subject | be | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Will football be played by him? | Will | football | be | played | by | him? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of simple future Tense. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences.
Active: Shall I eat rice?
Passive: Will rice be eaten by me?
Active: Will he beat you?
Passive: Will you be beaten by you?
Active: Will you make noise?
Passive: Will noise be made by you?
Active: Will they watch the movie?
Passive: Will the movie be watched by them?
Active: Shall we get the job?
Passive: Will the job be got by us?
Passive voice Interrogative sentence of Future Continuous Tense.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence structures and examples of Future Continuous Tense are as follows.
Structure
Shall/Will + subject + be + being + verb (past-participle form) + by + object?
Example:
| Active Voice | Shall/Will | Subject | be | Verb + ing | Object? |
| Will they be watching the movie? | Will | they | be | watching | the movie? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Shall/Will | subject | be | being | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Will the movie be being watched by them? | Will | the movie | be | being | watched | by | them? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of Future Continuous Tense. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences.
Active: Will you be eating rice?
Passive: Will rice be being eaten by me?
Active: Will he be writing a letter?
Passive: Will a letter be being written by him?
Active: Will mother be making a cake?
Passive: Will a cake be being made by mother?
Active: Will they be watching the movie?
Passive: Will the movie be being watched by them?
Active: Will you be catching fish?
Passive: Will fish be being caught by you?
Passive voice Interrogative sentence of Future Perfect Tense.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence structures and examples of Future Perfect Tense are as follows.
Structure
Will/Shall + subject + have + been + verb (past-participle form) + by + object?
Example:
| Active Voice | Will/Shall | subject | have | verb (past-participle form) | object? |
| Will you have seen the tiger? | Will | you | have | seen | the tiger? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Will/Shall | subject | have | been | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Will the tiger have been seen by you? | Will | the tiger | have | been | seen | by | you? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of Future Perfect Tense. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences.
Active: Will you have eaten rice?
Passive: Will rice have been eaten by you?
Active: Will he have written a letter?
Passive: Will a letter have been written by him?
Active: Will mother have made the cake?
Passive: Will the cake have been made by mother?
Active: Will they have watched the movie?
Passive: Will the movie have been watched by them?
Active: Will you have caught fish?
Passive: Will fish have been caught by you?
Passive voice Interrogative sentence of Future Perfect Continuous Tense.
Passive voice Interrogative sentence structures and examples of Future Perfect Continuous Tense are as follows.
Structure
Will/Shall + subject + have + been + being + verb (past-participle form) + by + object?
Example:
| Active Voice | Will/Shall | subject | have | been | being | verb + ing | object? |
| Will you have been being eating rice? | Will | you | have | been | being | eating | rice? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Will/Shall | subject | have | been | being | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Will rice have been being eaten by you? | Will | rice | have | been | being | eaten | by | you? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of Future Perfect Continuous Tense. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences.
Active: Will you have been doing the job?
Passive: Will the job have been being done by you?
Active: Will he have been writing a letter?
Passive: Will a letter have been being written by him?
Active: Will mother have been making a cake?
Passive: Will a cake have been being made by mother?
Active: Will they have been watching the movie?
Passive: Will the movie have been being watched by them?
Active: Will the fisherman have been catching fish?
Passive: Will fish have been being caught by the fisherman?
Passive Voice of Interrogative Sentences with the ‘wh-words’
To change the active voice begin with 'wh-words' in the passive voice, the 'wh-words' are placed at the beginning of the passive voice and the other steps will be the same as mentioned above. The 'Wh-words' are - 'Who', 'What', 'When', 'Where', 'Why', 'Which', and 'How', Only the 'Wh-word', 'Who' in active voice will change into 'By whom' in passive voice and remain at the beginning. 'Whom' in active voice will change into 'Who' in passive voice and remain at the beginning.
Example with ‘What’
| Active Voice | What | Auxiliary Verb | Subject | Main Verb | Objecr? |
| What did you tell him? | What | did | you | tell | him? |
- Simple Past tense
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | What | was/were | subject | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| What was he told by you? | What | was | he | told | by | him? |
Example with ‘Who’
| Active Voice | Who | Auxiliary Verb | Main Verb | Objecr? |
| Who has done the job? | Who | has | done | the job? |
- Present Perfect Tense
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | By whom | has/have | subject | been | verb (past-participle form) |
| By whom has the job been done? | By whom | has | the job | been | done? |
Example with ‘Whom’
| Active Voice | Whom | Auxiliary Verb | subject | Main Verb |
| Whom did you see? | Whom | did | you | see? |
- Simple Past Tense
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Who | was/were | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Who was seen by you? | Who | was | seen | by | you? |
Example with ‘Which’
| Active Voice | Which | Qualifying Noun | Auxiliary Verb | subject | Main Verb |
| Which pen has he lost? | Which | pen | has | he | lost? |
- Present Perfect Tense
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | Which | Qualifying Noun | Auxiliary Verb | been | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| Which pen has been lost by him? | Which | pen | has | been | lost | by | him? |
Example with ‘When’
| Active Voice | When | will/shall | subject | main verb | Object |
| When will you visit the Taj? | When | will | you | visit | the Taj? |
- Simple Future Tense
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive Voice | When | will/shall | subject | be | verb (past-participle form) | by | Object? |
| When will the Taj be visited by you? | When | will | the Taj | be | visited | by | you? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of ‘Wh-words’. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences beginning with ‘wh-words’.
Active: Where did Anil find the bag?
Passive: Where was the bag found by Anil?
Active: How did you open the door?
Passive: How was the door opened by you?
Active: Why does Biswajit beat the boy?
Passive: Why is the boy beaten by Biswajit?
Active: Who has broken the glass?
Passive: By whom has the glass been broken?
Active: Which saree has Mou selected?
Passive: Which saree has been selected by Mou?
Passive Voice of Interrogative Sentences with the ‘Modal Auxilary Verbs’
'Modal Auxilary verbs' are - 'can', 'May', 'Should', 'Must', 'ought to'
Structure
Modal Auxilary + Subject + be + main verb (past-participle form) + by + Object?
Examples
| Active voice | Modal Verbs | Subject | main verb | Object? |
| Can I do it? | Can | I | do | it? |
- Active voice object becomes passive voice subject.
- Active voice subject becomes passive voice object.
| Passive voice | Modal Verbs | Subject | be | main verb | by | Object? |
| Can it be done by me? | Can | it | be | done | by | me? |
More Examples in sentences
Study the examples of Passive voice Interrogative sentences of ‘Modal Verbs‘. This will help you to learn the process of conversion from active voice to the passive voice of interrogative sentences beginning with ‘Modal Verbs’.
Active: May you help me?
Passive: May I be helped by you?
Active: Should I accompany you?
Passive: Should you be accompanied by me?
Active: Who can do it?
Passive: By whom can it be done?
Active: Would you allow me to do this?
Passive: Would I be allowed by you to do this?
Active: Must I meet him?
Passive: Must he be met by me?
Active: Ought I to give him a test for more than two hours?
Passive: Ought he to be given a test for more than two hours by me?
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Exercises
1. Did you ask that fool?
2. Have you completed your essay yet?
3. Do they help you?
4. Have you ever tested the water of Ghumri?
5. Who feeds them?
6. Where can I get some water?
7. What are you doing here?
8. Why do you open your box?
9. Why do you ask for water?
10. Are you trying to teach me a lesson?