Active. He Did Something, rather than Something Happened To Him.
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 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.
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.
This is not an active sentence so it cannot be changed to a passive sentence. Active sentences have a subject and a verb. eg The dog chased the cat. As a passive sentence -- The cat was chased.
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."
This is a passive sentence. Passive sentences have a verb phrase -be + past participleThe verb phrase for this sentence is were converted
That is in the passive voice. The active version of the same sentence would be, the teacher confiscated the toy.