Question

Change the voice:

 

a) The curator of the museum showed us some ancient coins.

 

b) Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

 

Answer 1

i.We were shown some ancient coins by the curator of the museum.

ii.Beasts are taught by nature to know their friends.

Answer 2

a)We were shown some ancient coins by the curator of the museum.

b)Beasts are taught to know their friends by nature.

Explanation:

Change the Voice-

a)The first given sentence is in active voice while changing it into passive do the following changes-

• First we should identify the tense of the sentence.
• The tense of the first given sentence is simple past tense.
• We should begin the sentence with object and use proper helping verb according to the object and tense.
• In first sentence we should begin with 'we' and as it is past tense and plural form of pronoun so we should use 'were' after we.
• We should use past participle form of the verb. So past participle of show is shown.
• We should write remaining sentence and then by.
• After by we should write the subject. So here subject is the curator of the museum.

b) The tense of the given second sentence is simple present tense.

We should do the following changes-

• We should start with the given object that is beasts.
• Use the proper helping verb according to the object and tense. So here we should use 'are' as a helping verb.
• Then we should use past participle of the given verb. So teach becomes taught.
• Then by and then write subject.

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