Question

i found it last night in a ditch near my house
this sentence is active voice or passive voice​

Answer 1

I found it last night in a ditch near my house. - this sentence is an active voice.

Passive voice of the above:

It was found the previous night by me in a ditch near my house.

• English has two grammatical voices: active and passive.
• Although one is better suited to specific kinds of writing, neither is fundamentally superior to the other.

Active voice:

• As we've taught, the subject of the sentence performs the action in the active voice.
• Writing in the active voice is organising your sentence so that the subject does the action of the verb, regardless of the verb you employ.

Example:

Rudra likes birdwatching.

Thaswika loves twilight.

• The tone of the active voice is clear and concise.
• Use it when you want the reader's attention to be drawn to the sentence's subject and the action it is performing rather than the action's intended recipient.

Passive voice:

• The action's target is highlighted in the passive voice, while the subject is affected by the verb.
• Or, to use the passive voice, the verb causes the subject to act.

The passive voice always uses two verbs per sentence:

• an affix to the verb "to be"
• The main verb’s past participle

Take a look at the previous examples, now written in passive voice:

Example:

Birdwatching is liked by Rudra.

Twilight is loved by Thaswika.

Hence, the sentence given is in active voice.

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Answer 2

Answer:

I found it last night in a ditch near my house.- This sentence is in active voice.

Explanation:

Active and Passive voice

• The verb form that demonstrates whether the subject of a phrase acts and becomes the doer or becomes the recipient of an action is referred to as the "voice of the verb".

• The voice of a verb can be expressed in two ways- Active and passive describing the connection between the action and the elements in the sentence i.e. subject or object.

• While the active voice indicates that the noun or pronoun in the sentence acting as its subject is the one who is doing the activity.

• In other words, we can say, the verb is acted upon or performed by the subject.

• On the other hand, the passive voice demonstrates that the subject is being impacted by the action or verb in the sentence.

• Thus, in the passive voice, it is clear that the subject is no longer performing actively but acts passively.

• The subject of the verb acts as the active voice, while in the passive voice, it is the action's object.

• From here, we can observe the sentence pattern as- Subjcet+ verb+ object i.e. I [S] + found + [V] + it [O] last night in a ditch near my house. (Active voice)

• It [O]+ was found [V]+ the previous night by + me [S] in a ditch near my house. (Passive voice)    

Therefore, the sentence is in the active voice.

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