Question

The boys were watching a movie. change into passive voice.

Answer 1

Answer:

A movie was being watched by them(boys) or The movie was being watched by the boys.

Explanation:

In this question, we were given the statement 'The boys were watching a movie(Active voice) and had to convert it into 'A movie was being watched by them(boys) or The movie was being watched by the boys.'(Passive voice).

Passive Voice:

• The passive voice, a type of grammatical voice structure, is used in many languages.
• The topic or patient of the primary verb—i.e., the person or thing that is subjected to the action or has its status changed—is communicated by the grammatical subject of a statement written in the passive voice.
• Active voice, on the other hand, places the subject in the position of the agent.
• For instance, in the passive sentence "The tree was pulled down," the subject (the tree) denotes the patient rather than the actor's actor. In contrast, the phrases "The tree has fallen" and "Someone has knocked down the tree" are active verbs.

Active Voice:

• The grammatical structure known as the active voice is used in a wide variety of languages around the world.
• It is the unmarked voice of nominative-accusative languages that contain transitive verbs, such as English and the vast majority of other Indo-European languages.
• In these languages, the verb is frequently in the active voice when the subject of the sentence performs the action described.
• The active voice is used when the phrase's subject acts as the agent of the main verb.
• In other words, the verb's designated action is carried out by the subject.

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Answer 2

Answer:

A movie was being watched by the boys.

Explanation:

Active to passive voice follows change of tenses and phrases.

• The given sentence follows the structure - "Subject + was/were + V1 + ing + object". This means that the sentence is in past continuous tense.
• To convert it to passive voice we need to follow the structure - "Object + was/were + being + V3 + by + subject".

The sentence becomes -

A movie (object) + was + being + watched (third form of verb) + by + the boys (subject).

Note-

• In passive voice the object and subject interchange their places.
• Usually the verb changes is tense from first form to third form to indicate kind of reported tense.

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