The conclusions are contained in the agency's latest report.This sentence is a passive sentence, a present simple passive sentence. The verb phrase is - are contained = be verb + past participle.Past perfect passive sentence:The conclusions had been contained in the agency's latest report.
Escaping to a maroon colony
The German government replied by issuing orders such as, not to work for the french authority put up passive resistance
A student who passes out copies of her sacred texts in front of a police station despite knowing she will be arrested (B)
I assume we have the same text that came with this question, and he's saying in a very passive aggressive way that the petition would've been fine if the colonists had agreed to the taxes. However, they didn't, so a simple petition wouldn't get Britain to do anything and harsher actions needed to be taken to get the King's attention.
This sentence has two clauses, either one of which could be converted.Here is how to convert both clauses:I was told by the chairman that the bill was passed by the legislature.
Active means the verbs are active, not helped with a tiny "be" verb (is, are, was, were, have, had etc.).The chairman told you that the legislature passedthe bill.The chairman TOLD...the legislature PASSED...PassiveB It was voted by the legislature to pass.C The bill was passed by the legislature.A clue to passive voice is a version of the verb "to be" which are helping verbs (is, was, were, etc.), and use of "by" in the sentence.
This sentence is already in the passive. The verb is "BE + -ed" and there is no actor (who opened it?). The active version of this sentence is "Someone opened the parcel secretly."
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The sentence "I am going to school" in passive voice can be converted to "School is going to be attended by me."
You cannot, because the main verb "is" does not have a passive form. Only the predicate may be expressed in the passive: ...time for the class to be started.
It is not easy (impossible?) to convert this sentence to passive voice.The passive refers to something that happens to people/things.# The fox ate the chicken, is the active voice. The subject (fox) did the action to the object (the chicken).# The chicken was eaten by the fox. is the passive voice. The subject of the sentence, the chicken, was passive in the action. (well, it probably wasn't! However..) The subject (chicken) was being acted upon by the object of the sentence, the fox.In the sentence in the question, the birds did nothing to the sky, and the sky had nothing done to it! The nearest approximation might be "The sky is being flown in by the birds!", but that hardly makes any sense!
The sentence "Sentences can be written in active and passive voices" is a declarative sentence written in passive voice.
To change an active sentence to passive, identify the object in the active sentence and make it the subject in the passive sentence. Move the subject of the active sentence to the phrase with "by" and change the verb to its past participle form. To change a passive sentence to active, identify the subject in the passive sentence and make it the subject in the active sentence. Use an appropriate active verb to describe the subject's action and add the original object of the passive sentence as the direct object in the active sentence.
The sentence is passive.
That is a passive sentence since the subject noun is last. When the object of the sentence is being acted upon by the subject, it is passive. An active example of this same sentence would be: "Budd nurtured Carver's Creativity."
was grabbed is the passive verb.The passive is: be verb + past participleThe sentence above is a past simple passive sentence. The corresponding active sentence isThe little girl, who was better, grabbed the ball