Question

what is the passive voice of "She didn't win the prize"?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The prize was not won by her.

Explanation:

the prize' becomes the subject. As it is third person singular and a negative sentence, we use was + not + past participle.

irregular verb: win - won - won

Don't use 'did' with a form of 'to be'

Answer 2

Answer:

The passive voice for the given sentence is-

"The prize wasn't won by her."

Explanation:

• The voice of a verb demonstrates whether the subject in the sentence has performed the action or received the action.

• Verbs have two voices namely Active Voice and Passive Voice

• When an action performed by the subject is expressed by the verb i.e. subject is directly acting on the object, it is called an active voice.

• But when the action expressed by the verb is received by the subject i.e. object is acted upon by the subject, it is referred to as passive voice.

• The format for passive voice: Passive subject + to be + past participle

• Passive voice is used when the agent of the action is not known and the focus of the sentence is on the action and not the subject.

• Every sentence is a combination of a subject, verb, and object. A subject is an agent who acts or performs the verb on the object.

• In both forms, the meaning and tense remain the same and only the format or structure is what changes.

• The sequence of the subject, verb, and object expressed in the active voice sentence gets reversed in the passive voice of the same sentence.

• For the given sentence in the simple past tense, the voice change will follow the below rule:

• Active voice: Subject +did+ not+verb 1+ object (She didn't win the prize.)

• Passive voice: Object + was/were+ not +Verb 3+ by Subject (The prize wasn't won by her.)

Hence, the sentence in the passive voice would be-  

"The prize wasn't won by her."          

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