Question

Active and Passive Voice

Say whether the following are Active or Passive Voice

sentences:

1. They elected him chairman.

2. The children laughed at the beggar.

3. Snuff is taken by the old man.

4. The dog was hit with a stick by somebody.

5. The guard caught the thief.

6. The carriage will be ordered by me.

7. The soldiers attacked the enemy barracks.

8. The thief has been caught by the police.

9. The match may be won by our team.

10. The cat drank all the milk.

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Answer 1

1. Active
2.Active
3.Passive
4.Passive
5.Active
6.Passive
7.Active
8.Passive
9.Passive
10.Active

Answer 2

Required answers:-

1. They elected him as the chairman. (Active voice)
2. The children laughed at the begger. (Active voice)
3. Snuff is taken by the old man. (Passive voice)
4. The dog was hit with a stick by somebody. (Passive voice)
5. The guard caught the thief. (Active voice)$\:$
6. The carriage will be ordered by me. (Passive voice)
7. The soldiers attacked the enemy barracks. (Active voice)
8. The thief has been caught by the police. (Passive voice)
9. The match may be won by our team. (Passive voice)
10. The cat drank all the milk. (Active voice)

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Know More !!

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎In English Grammar, there are two types of voices. Namely, they are:

• Active voice
• Passive voice

↦Active voice: A sentence is said to be in active voice if it's subject performs the action to its object.

• Structure – Subject + Verb + Object
• Example – Rashi had informed to the teacher.

↦Passive voice: The sentences where its subject receives the action from the object are said to be in passive voice.

• Structure – Object + Helping verb + Verb 3 + by + Subject
• Example – The teacher had been informed by Rashi.

* To state whether a sentence is in active or passive voice, identify the SVO, i.e, subject, verb and object in the sentence. Then, look at the sentence and recognise which part of the sentence is doing the action. If the subject part does the action, then it is in active voice and if object does the action, it is in passive voice. And remember, passive voice has the preposition "by" before the object.

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