Question

The birch-bark was handed to Raj by the stranger.(Change the sentence in to active voice)

Answer 1

Given:

Change the sentence in to active voice:

• The birch-bark was handed to Raj by the stranger.

Answer:

• The stranger handed the birch-bark to Raj.

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★ What is Active voice?

A verb is said to be in the active voice when the subject of the verb is the doer of the action or acts or is active.

Examples:

1. He helps the poor.
2. A poet writes poem

★ What is Passive voice?

A verb is said to be in the Passive voice when the subject of the verb doesn't act but receives the action by someone or something.

Examples:

1. The poor is helped by him.
2. Poems are written by a poet.

Note :–

1. The Object of the Verb in Active Voice becomes the Subject of the Verb in the passive voice
2. The Subject in the Active Voice becomes the Object of the Verb in the Passive voice.And the Preposition by has been used before it.
3. An appropriate form of the Verb to be has been used followed by the Third form (Past Participle) of the Verb.

Answer 2

TOPIC:- VOICE CHANGE

Required answer:-

• Given sentence - The birch-bark was handed to Raj by the stranger.
• Active voice - The stranger handed the birch-bark to Raj.

Explanation:-

The given sentence has to be changed to active voice. First of all, let's understand the concept! Here, the concept of the question is "Voices - Active and Passive". ‎In English Grammar, there are two types of voices, namely, active voice and passive voice. Let's know what are they!

$\bigstar$ Active voice: A sentence is said to be in active voice if it's subject performs the action to its object.

• ‎Structure – Subject + Verb + Object
• Example – We are reading her book.

$\bigstar$ Passive voice: The sentences where its subject receives the action from the object are said to be in passive voice.

• ‎‎Structure – Object + Helping verb + Verb 3 + by + Subject
• Example – Her book is being read by us.

Have a look at the structure of active voice mentioned above!

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎Subject + Verb + Object

Now arrange the appropriate words in this structure from the given sentence.

- Subject: The stranger

- Verb: Hand

- Object: The birch-bark (to Raj)

Since the passive voice shows the tense as simple past tense, the verb "hand" has to be changed to its past tense, i.e., handed. Now writing as a sentence, we've obtained:

• The stranger handed the birch-bark to Raj.

Additional information:-

To change a sentence from active voice to passive voice:

1. The places of subject and the object must be interchanged with each other, while interchanging, pronominal changes also takes place, in a way that the subject pronoun changes to object pronoun.
2. Then a suitable helping verb/ auxiliary verb have to be inserted according to the tense of the sentence.
3. The form of the verb has to be changed to the third form, i.e, to the past participle form.
4. The preposition "by" has to be inserted before the subject.

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