Can you help me identify the passive voice verbs and active voice verbs in these sentences?
- The tiny kitten wandered into the living room.
- That test is taken by many high school seniors.
- The dog dug a hole in the yard to bury its bone.
- Carol wrote a thank-you note to her grandmother.
- The black car was polished to a velvety sheen.
- Identify the sentence that is written in passive voice.
- The photographs had been taken by a friend of my grandfather's.
- Wispy clouds floated in a clear blue sky.
- Rust had ruined the little red wagon.
- A siren cut the night's silence.?
- The tiny kitten wandered into the living room.
- That test is taken by many high school seniors.
- The dog dug a hole in the yard to bury its bone.
- Carol wrote a thank-you note to her grandmother.
- The black car was polished to a velvety sheen.
- Identify the sentence that is written in passive voice.
- The photographs had been taken by a friend of my grandfather's.
- Wispy clouds floated in a clear blue sky.
- Rust had ruined the little red wagon.
- A siren cut the night's silence.?
1 Answer
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Explanation:
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The tiny kitten
#color(red)("wandered")# into the living room. -
That test
#color(blue)("is taken")# by many high school seniors. -
The dog
#color(red)("dug")# a hole in the yard to bury its bone. -
Carol
#color(red)("wrote")# a thank-you note to her grandmother. -
The black car
#color(blue)("was polished")# to a velvety sheen. -
#color(red)("Identify")# the sentence that#color(blue)("is written")# in passive voice. -
The photographs
#color(blue)("had been taken")# by a friend of my grandfather's. -
Wispy clouds
#color(red)(" floated")# in a clear blue sky. -
Rust
#color(red)("had ruined")# the little red wagon. -
A siren
#color(red)("cut")# the night's silence.?
Of these 6. is the trickiest. It has an implied subject of "You" and "You" are the one doing the "identify" verb action;
furthermore it contains a clause where the subject of the clause, "that" which is the thing that "is written" and not the thing doing the writing.