The object from the active sentence goes to the subject position in the passive (only it is not called the subject in the passive sentence) eg
You
The verb form for passive is be + past participle. In this example ( present continuous) it is not as straight forward as present simple or past simple but the verb phrase becomes
are being watched.
You are being watched
The subject of the active sentence is called the agent in a passive sentence and can be left out of the passive sentence if you want. If you want to add the agent then you use by + agent:
You are being watched by the teacher
The sentence "Sentences can be written in active and passive voices" is a declarative sentence written in passive voice.
The sentence is passive.
active
The word decided is passive, because of the ed at the end, but if it was being used in a sentence, depending on how it was used in the sentence, it could be either active or passive. Hope that helps!
This is a passive sentence. The actors are after the preposition "by" and the verb is "BE + Participle". The active version is: Ghosts haunt the old castle.
That is in the passive voice. The active version of the same sentence would be, the teacher confiscated the toy.
The sentence "All of the clues were carefully hidden by your teacher" is a passive sentence because the subject ("all of the clues") is being acted upon by the verb ("were hidden").
active and passive
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 "Sentences can be written in active and passive voices" is a declarative sentence written in passive voice.
The verb "given" in the sentence "Were you given a second helping" is in the passive voice.
Please provide the sentence so I can determine if the verb is active or passive.
You change passive voice to active voice by making the actor(s) the subject of the sentence, e.g., "the question was asked by the user" (passive) versus, "the user asked the question" (active).
To change a sentence from active to passive voice, move the object of the active sentence to the subject position in the passive sentence and add a form of the verb "to be" along with the past participle of the main verb. For example, "I ate the cake" in active voice becomes "The cake was eaten by me" in passive voice.
The sentence is passive.
To change a sentence from active voice to passive voice, move the object of the active sentence to the beginning, followed by the verb in the past participle form and the subject at the end with "by" if needed. To change a passive sentence to active, identify the subject of the passive sentence, move it to the position of the subject in the active voice, and make the original subject the object of the active sentence.
Active voice: "John attended school." Passive voice: "The school was attended by John." Passive voice: "Jane was helped by John." Active voice: "John helped Jane." In active voice, the subject of the sentence usually comes first and is doing the action to something else. In passive voice, the predicate is being acted upon by the subject. Passive voice tends to be harder to read , and it tends to use more words. So for the most part, you should avoid using passive voice.