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if the sentence is passive,what's its active form?herre are other sentences:
-He wanted his son to clean the room. I teach the ative is:he wanted the room to be cleaned by his son)-
-She felt her country threatened by diseases..etc.
i teach them as passive voice,but some colleagues say NO!!Thanks a lot!
Yours,Mohsin

2006-10-12 09:05:55 · 4 answers · asked by mohsin Chbihi 1 in Arts & Humanities Other - Arts & Humanities

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Those are not good examples of the passive voice. The problem is that you have added an observer, and described the observer using the active voice.

For example:

Passive: His country was invaded by Germany.
Active: Germany invaded his country.
Active: He saw his country invaded by Germany.

(In the third case "he" is the subject, actively "seeing" what happened to his country. In the passive example, his country is the subject being acted upon by the object. Making the last passive is pretty complicated. Something like: His country was seen by him being invaded by Germany.)

Passive: The room was to be cleaned by the son.
Active: The son was to clean the room.
Active: He wanted his son to clean the room.


Passive: Her country was threatened by diseases.
Active: Diseases threatened her country.
Active: She felt her country . . . etc.

2006-10-12 09:13:20 · answer #1 · answered by C_Bar 7 · 0 0

No, these sentences aren't passive voice.

The active voice states that the subject of a sentence is the one who/that performs the action predicted by the verb.

Columbus discovered America in 1492.

The passive voice states that the subject in the sentece is the one who/that receives the action. Usually it's used to describe processes and when the agent, the one who/that performed the action is not important. It is to say, the agent can be omitted.

America was discovered by Christopher Columbus.
America was discovered in 1492.

As you see, the passive voice is constructed always with the verb to be as an auxiliary verb and the past participle of the verb.

2006-10-12 09:34:53 · answer #2 · answered by Smurfette 3 · 0 0

All three sentences are active - the subject of each sentence is doing the action in the main verb:
He saw...
He wanted....
She felt....

I think the fact that the sentences contain an -ed form in the second part of the sentence has confused you, but your colleagues are correct.

2006-10-12 09:25:48 · answer #3 · answered by bernieszu 4 · 0 0

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