Question

The farmers need huge water for cultivating the land.Change it into passive voice.
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Answer 1

Active voice: The farmers need huge water for cultivating the land.

Passive voice: Huge water is needed by the farmers for cultivating the land.

Certain rules to be followed when converting active voice to passive voice are as follows:-

• Firstly, the subject and object needs to be identified.
• The position of subject and object gets inter-changed.
• The verb is changed to past participle form (third form) and an auxiliary verb is added as per the requirement.
• Here, the helping verb 'is' is added.

Answer 2

Answer:

The farmers need huge water for cultivating the land.

• The given sentence is an active voice.
• The Passive voice is : Huge water is needed by the farmers for cultivating the land.

Explanation:

• To turn the sentence from 'active to passive voice' we need to identify what kind of tense has been used in the given sentence.
• It is an example of Present Indefinite Tense. The subject of the sentence is 'the farmers' and object is 'huge water for cultivating the land.' Here 'need' is main verb.
• When active voice turns into passive voice then object of active voice turns into subject. So 'huge water' is subject here but 'water' is an uncountable noun so it is always remained 'singular'. That is why 'is' has been used as auxiliary verb. Past participle form of 'need' is 'needed' and it has used already after auxiliary verb 'is.'
• After main verb 'preposition' by or with have been used according to the object of passive voice. 'By' is used before living object and 'farmers' are human beings, that is why 'by' has been used before the 'farmers.'
• And rest : for cultivating the land' has used as it is.