Change the following sentences from active to passive:-[2]
a) switch off the lights at ten.
b) when did you write this letter?
Answers
Answer:
a) Let the lights be switched off at ten.
b) When was this letter written by you?
Explanation:
a) The first question is an imperative sentence.Commands and orders in active voice can be changed into passive voice using 'Let' (or 'Let not'
for 'Don't').
*So the answer is,
Let the lights be switched off at ten.
b) The second question is in active voice,interrogative sentence,past tense.
*We have to change the question into passive voice,interrogative sentence,past tense.
*The structure of the passive voice,interrogative,past tense is, sub+was/were+v3(past participle).
*So the answer is,
When was this letter written by you?
MORE:
*In the Active voice the subject is the "doer".
*In the Passive voice the subject is the "sufferer".
*While changing a sentence from active to passive voice,we have to add a "be" form verb and the past participle of the main verb should be used in the passive form.
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