Question

Change the voice.
. He was arrested on a charge of theft, but for lack of evidence he was released.

A. He was arrested on a charge of theft, but was released for lack of evidence.
B. The police arrested him on a charge of theft, but for the lack of evidence he was
released.
C. The police arrested him on a charge of theft, but for the lack of evidence released
him.
D. None of these.​

Answer 1

Answer:

c

Explanation:

c.is a correct option

the police arrested him on a charge of theft but for the lack of evidence released him

Answer 2

Answer:              

The correct answer is c. The police arrested him on a charge of theft, but for the lack of evidence released him.

Explanation:

On changing the voice of the sentence, "He was arrested on a charge of theft, but for lack of evidence he was released." from active to passive, the correct sentence is, "The police arrested him on a charge of theft, but for the lack of evidence released him".

As the sentence is in simple past tense and so by applying the structure for converting the sentence from active to passive voice in simple past, passive voice of the sentence is obtained. The structure for passive voice for simple past tense sentence is given below:

Object + past participle form of verb + subject

Therefore, the correct sentence in passive voice is The police arrested him on a charge of theft, but for the lack of evidence released him.

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