I could not spare much time. (change the voice)
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The given sentence is in active voice.
Active Voice : I could not spare much time.
Cambridge English Dictionary defines 'active voice' as 'the relationship between a subject and a verb in which the subject performs the action of the verb, or the verb forms which show this relationship.'
The given sentence, when converted to passive voice, is :
Passive Voice : Much time could not be spared by me.
Cambridge English Dictionary defines 'passive voice' as 'the relationship between a subject and a verb in which the subject receives the action of the verb, or the verb forms which show this relationship.'
The answer to the question, ’I could not spare much time’, after changing the voice will be, ‘Much time could not be spared by me’.
Changing the voice of the sentence means to change the sense of the sentence as it was being said at a later stage. In the above example, it is clearly the sense of the time which differentiates the two sentences.