Active to Passive Conversion exercises — Set 3: Phrasal Verbs & Non-Passivizable Sentences (Typing Practice)

Typing Practice • 20 questions • 12 min

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Active: "A babysitter looks after the children every evening." Choose the correct passive:

The children are looked by a babysitter every evening.
The children are looked after by a babysitter every evening.
The children are after looked by a babysitter every evening.
The children look after by a babysitter every evening.

Active to Passive Conversion exercises online (Typing Practice)

Some conversions are trickier than others. When a phrasal or prepositional verb becomes passive, the particle or preposition must stay with the verb — 'look after' becomes 'be looked after', not 'be looked'. You'll also learn to spot sentences that cannot be made passive at all, such as those with intransitive verbs like 'happen' or 'arrive'.