Question

Rewrite this sentence using the passive voice :
I had sharpened my pencil and I had used it to sketch the diagram.

Answer 1

The pencil had been sharpened and used by me to sketch the diagram

Answer 2

The answer is as follows:

The pencil that had been sharpened by me had been used by me to sketch the diagram.

Active and Passive Voice

• In the given sentence, the subject 'I' is said to carry out the action. Thus, it is in the active voice.

• In the passive voice, the action is written in correspondence to the subject.

• The past perfect tense 'had' is changed to 'had been ' in the passive voice.

• The object 'pencil' becomes the subject of the sentence in the passive voice.