Question

(d) Change the voice :
(xiii) Someone is following us.
(xiv) Open the door.
(xv) Bulldozers remove the top soil.
(xvi) How can we serve the people ?​

Answer 1

Answer:

We are being followed by someone?

The door should be opened by you. (Not Sure)

The top soil is removed by bulldozers.

How can the people be served by us?

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

ANSWER :

• (xiii) Someone is following us.

✠ Passive Voice :- We are being followed by someone.

• (xiv) Open the door.

✠ Passive Voice :- Let the door be opened.

• (xv) Bulldozers remove the top soil.

✠ Passive Voice :- The top soil is removed by Bulldozers.

• (xvi) How can we serve the people ?

✠ Passive Voice :- How can the people be served by us ?

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MORE TO KNOW :

❖ Voice :-

• ➯ In English grammar, Voice refers to a form of verb which shows whether what is denoted by the subject does something or has something done to it.

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❖ Types of Voice :-

• [1] Active Voice.

• [2] Passive Voice.

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❖ Active Voice :-

• ➯ Active Voice refers to the voice that a sentence has a subject which acts upon its verb.

• ➯ In Active Voice, the subject is the doer of the action. The subject may be a person or a thing who does something. The verb in Active Voice shows the action of the subject.

• ➯ Active Voice is so called because the subject of a sentence of Active Voice perform/ does/acts upon the action shows by the verb.

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❖ Passive Voice :-

• ➯ Passive Voice refers to the voice that the subject of a sentence is a recipient of the action of the verb.

• ➯ Passive Voice represents a sentence where the subject of the sentence receives the action, performed by the verb, i.e., the verb's action is done or performed by the subject.

• ➯ Passive Voice is so called because the subject of a sentence of Passive Voice suffers/receives the action of verb instead of directly acting upon the verb's action.