Question

choose the correct option to fill in the blank ​

Answer 1

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1. b) had raised
2. b) explained how difficult
3. d) was stolen

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The questioned paragraph is on passive voice.

What is Voice?

=Voice is a grammatical category which makes it possible to view the action of a sentence in two ways, without change in the facts reported”.

One and the same idea can often be expressed in two different ways, by means of an active, and by means of a passive construction.

1. Active Voice

Active voice is used to indicate the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb.

With the active voice, you learn ‘who’ or ‘what’ is responsible for the action at the beginning of the sentence. In other words, the subject performs the action denoted by the verb.

Example :

John wrote the letter.

-John (subject) performs the action denoted by the verb (write).

2. Passive Voice

In Passive voice the sentence focus on object i.e. who/what is receiving the action and not on who/what is performing the action.

In passive voice, the actor of the of the verb (action) is either understood at the end of the sentence or maybe not told.

The passive voice is used in writing facts, truth, lab or technical reports in which the actor is not important or unknown, but the action happening on the object is very important.

Example :

The letter was written by John.

- letter receives the action denoted by the write (verb).

How to identify the active / passive voice?

=Ask who/what performed the action(verb)? -- if the ‘who or what is at the beginning of the sentence, the sentence is active voice.

Example :

Jack is eating the apple.

Question will be : Who is eating the apple?

Look for the word “by”, if present it is passive voice.