Question

we have visited Paris Change into passive

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Answer 1

To begin with, the best place for adverbs of time, like “ every year “, is at the end of a sentence. Your sentence looks better like this: “ I visit New Delhi every year ” The word order in your active voice sentence is: S + V + O + Adv. ie Subject(I) + Verb(visit) + Object(New Delhi) + Adv. of Time( every year). In order to turn this sentence into the passive voice, follow these steps: 1) The direct object(New Delhi) becomes THE SUBJECT of the passive voice 2) Next comes the verb “to be" in the same tense as the verb in the active sentence, in this case “simple present tense ”, IS. 3) The past participle of the verb in the active voice, ie VISITED 4) The subject of the active voice sentence becomes THE DO-ER/ THE BY-AGENT/,THE LOGICAL SUBJECT ie BY-ME. 5) THE ADVERB OF TIME, EVERY YEAR. Finally, here is your passive sentence: “New Delhi is visited by me every year “

NB1 Not any passive sentence, even if it is built up according to the rules, sounds right and acceptable. This passive sentence is a case in point, a good example! No native speaker of English would say such a sentence. Why is that? Well, the idea is that whenever the subject of a sentence is important, whenever you say what you are doing, what you did, what you have done and so on, you should use the ACTIVE VOICE. Consequently, you should say:” I visited Paris last year “and not" Paris was visited by me" (as if I were the Queen or something)/ “ I am listening to you" and not “ You are being listened to by me”/ “ I see her everyday" and not “ She is seen by me everyday"

NB2 Only sentences that have a transitive verb can be turned into the passive voice because they have an object(direct or indirect) that becomes the subject of the passive sentence. Trouble is that one and the same verb can be both transitive and intransitive. For example, in the sentence:” They speak well" the verb “speak" is intransitive, it has no object( well is not an object, it is an adverb) so the sentence cannot be made passive. In the sentence: “ They speak English well there" the verb "speak" is transitive, it has the object “English" which becomes the subject of the passive sentence: “ English is spoken well there(by them). Similarly:” He drives fast “-intransitive verb, no passive voice vs. “ He drives this sports car"- transitive verb, passive voice:” This sports car is driven by him.

Answer 2

Answer:

we had visited pairs change into passive voice