Question

He pressed the drive button (change the voice)​

Answer 1

The drive button was pressed by him.

• There are two types of voice forms, in the English grammar, 1) Active voice, and , 2) Passive voice.
• The given sentence is in the active voice form and we have to change it into the passive voice form.
• To do that, we have simply interchanged the places of object and subject with each other and did other grammatical necessities.
• The final sentence is in the passive voice form.

Answer 2

He pressed the drive button (change the voice)

Answer:

The drive button was pressed by him.

The given sentence is the simple past tense. So the structure of the passive voice is as follows

Passive : obj + was/were + V3 + sub

Rules -

• Keep in mind its tense while converting active to passive voice.

• Exchange the places of the subject and object.

• While converting a sentence from active to passive, we should convert the main verb into its past participle which is also known as the third form of a verb.