2007-03-06 06:16:19 · 6 answers · asked by jack b 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The disadvantages are outweighed by the advantages.
(Remember, with passive voice you will have a helping or auxiliary verb)
2007-03-06 06:22:00 · answer #1 · answered by SusanB 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The disadvantages are outweighed by the advantages.
The object of the sentence becomes the subject in passive voice. It always has the are or were in the verb.
The dogs were hit by the car: passive
The car hit the dogs: active
2007-03-06 06:20:23 · answer #2 · answered by omouse 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The disadvantages are outweighed (by the advantages).
2007-03-06 06:22:06 · answer #3 · answered by lamo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since advantages and disadvantages do not refer to a specific person you can give credit or assign blame to, the sentance is said to be in the passive voice. In order for it to be in the active voice, you would have to identify who was giving the advantage or disadvantage.
The advantages the company offers far outweight the disadvantages you would experiance by doing business with them.
It wouldn't do any good to say who the advantages or disadvantages were going to by the way:
The advantages your freind would recieve far outweigh the disadvantages.
because we still don't know where they are coming from!
You have to identify the source in order to make the sentance active. This is particularly important in business writing, as well as in most scholarly papers.
If you can identify who did it, you always get points over saying, that something got done.
2007-03-06 06:25:19 · answer #4 · answered by MUDD 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The advantages are outweighed by the disadvantages.
2007-03-06 06:19:33 · answer #5 · answered by farmsxprt 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The disadvantages are outweighed by the advantages.
convert it into a simpler sentence to understand it, like "the tigers killed the deer" so it will be "the deer was killed by the tigers" NOT "the tigers were killed by the deer" lol
2007-03-06 06:23:39 · answer #6 · answered by Axn 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋