"The road was closed by the police due to an accident" is a sentence that uses the passive voice.
No, "He is a boy" is not in passive voice. Passive voice involves rearranging the sentence to emphasize the receiver of the action rather than the doer, which would change the sentence to something like "The boy is being called."
An example of a passive listening sentence is "I'm hearing what you're saying, but I'm not really paying attention to it." This can indicate that the listener is not fully engaged or actively processing the information being communicated.
A sentence is in PASSIVE VOICE when the subject receives the action of the verb. In these sentences, the object is placed in the position of the subject and the verb is in PASSIVE VOICE. Example auxiliary verb(was in singular & were in plural) and past participle takes part in a sentence.
Our has no bearing over whether a sentence is active or passive. It can be used in both. Active voice: A nice couple bought our house. Passive voice: Our house has been bought by a nice couple.
The sentence "The potholes on our street will be repaired" has a verb in the passive voice ("will be repaired").
The sentence "Sentences can be written in active and passive voices" is a declarative sentence written in passive voice.
No this sentence is not passive voice.
No, "He is a boy" is not in passive voice. Passive voice involves rearranging the sentence to emphasize the receiver of the action rather than the doer, which would change the sentence to something like "The boy is being called."
C is the only sentence in the passive voice.
An example of a passive listening sentence is "I'm hearing what you're saying, but I'm not really paying attention to it." This can indicate that the listener is not fully engaged or actively processing the information being communicated.
A sentence is in PASSIVE VOICE when the subject receives the action of the verb. In these sentences, the object is placed in the position of the subject and the verb is in PASSIVE VOICE. Example auxiliary verb(was in singular & were in plural) and past participle takes part in a sentence.
Our has no bearing over whether a sentence is active or passive. It can be used in both. Active voice: A nice couple bought our house. Passive voice: Our house has been bought by a nice couple.
The sentence "The potholes on our street will be repaired" has a verb in the passive voice ("will be repaired").
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).
No, this sentence is in the active voice. In passive voice, it would be "The tree was planted."
The bold are favoured by Fortune. Note: Following the question, the answer uses the British spelling; the American spelling would be "favored".
Active voice is when the subject of a sentence does the action. Passive voice is when the subject of a sentence receives the action. A sentence that has passive voice usually has the word by in it and the verb has a form of be in it and is in the past tense.