active to passive with the help of verb it was a bright sunny day
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☯ The day was bright and sunny.
Verb used: was
The verb rise is unaccusative, and therefore does not have a passive.
An unaccusative verb is one in which the grammatical subject (in this case, The Sun) is not a semantic agent . By grammatical subject, what I mean is, ‘the entity which comes first in the English sentence, and with which the first verb agrees in person and number’. By semantic agent, I mean ‘causer of the event described by the clause, usually by intentional action’. The Sun is not a semantic agent in English because English speakers regard it as a property of how the world is, rather than an entity with its own will and capacity to make decisions or take unpredictable actions.
Unaccusative verbs are inherently intransitive. Other respondents have stated that rise does not have a passive because it is intransitive. However, this is not strictly true. The verb walk can be intransitive, e.g. John walked. However, it can also be transitive, e.g. John walks his dog every evening. The entity which is doing the walking is the dog, not John. This is clear in two ways. First, John walks his dog could be paraphrased as John CAUSES his dog to walk. Second, imagine that John is a paraplegic, who can only control his body by giving head and voice commands to a wheelchair. In this case, we can still say John walks his dog every evening, and it means that John uses his voice and wheelchair to take his dog along with him; the dog is walking and John is not. We can use the passive sentence, The dog is being walked, where walk is normally an intransitive verb. This is because walk is an unergati