Question
Download Solution PDFDirection: Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
The workers had eaten all the pastries before the day broke.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is "All the pastries had been eaten by the workers before the day broke."
Key Points
- The given sentence is in Past Perfect Tense and Active Voice.
- The rule for changing a Past Perfect Tense from Active voice to Passive voice:
- In the passive voice, the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence, and the verb is changed to its past participle form.
- Structure:
- Subject + had + V3 + Object (Active Voice)
- Object + had + been + V3 + by + Subject (Passive Voice)
- Example:
- Disha had arranged the things. (Active Voice)
- The things had been arranged by Disha. (Passive Voice)
- The sentence is in active voice with the subject 'workers' performing the action 'eating'.
- To convert it into passive voice, we need to make the object 'pastries' the subject and use the past participle form of the verb 'eat'.
- In this case, we use the past perfect tense 'had been eaten' to show that the action was completed before another past event (day breaking).
- The correct answer is Option 2.
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