Question

shut the door (change into passive voice

Answer 1

         The passive voice for shut the door would be 'Let the door be shut'.

         In this sentence, ‘shut’ is the “past participle of the verb” shut and door is the object.This is an imperative sentence with an underlying instruction in an active form.

         So while changing to passive form, the imperative verb ‘let’ can be used and applied in the rule:   Let + object + be + past participle.

Answer 2

Active: Shut the door.

Passive: Let the door be shut.

The given active form is an imperative sentence. So the structure of the passive voice is as follows:

Let + object + be + past participle.

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.
• We should always use the word "by" in the passive sentence.