Which of the following sentences is written in the passive voice? A. The effects of cyanide are well known. B. Having left the building, Elvis never returned. C. I would not provoke that man if I were you. D. They considered their options.

I could be very wrong, but I believe the answer is B. The reason for this is because in an active voice, the subject is doing the action, but in this case, it is a passive voice. The passive voice has a subject that is the one being acted on. An example would be: The crow was watched by the girl. To make this active, though, you would simply make the girl the subject of the sentence like so: The girl watched the crow.

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biruci biruci · Answer 2 · 2019-09-03T11:33:32+02:00

Answer:

The passive voice of those options is ‘The effects of cyanide are well known.’ Therefore, the A should be marked. The passive voice of that sentence is recognized through the use of ‘are’ (to be) followed by the past participle ‘known.’ It is easy for you to analyze the passive voice by using that trick.

Explanation:

Analyzing passive voice is easy but tricky. Passive voice occurs when there is ‘to be’, either past, present, or future, that is followed by past participle. Let’s analyze the options B, C, and D, whether they are passive voice or not:

1. “Having left the building, Elvis never returned”

It may be tricky since this sentence uses past participle on the sentence: ‘left’ ad ‘returned.’ However, there is no ‘to be’ on that sentence. Therefore, this option is the wrong one.

2. “I would not provoke that man if I were you”

It is also similar to that of the option B. This sentence uses past participle. However, this participle because there is no ‘to be’ before the past participle. The past participle of the sentence, ‘would,’ is used to describe something that happened in the past, it does not describe the use of passive voice on the sentence. Therefore, you should not mark the option B.

3. “They considered their options”

Like the option B, the option C also has the similar issue. This sentence uses past participle of ‘consider’. Therefore, it does not mean that this sentence uses passive voice.

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Keywords: Passive voice, active voice

Subject : English

Class : 10-12

Sub-Chapter : Grammar