Question
Download Solution PDFDirections: Select the correct passive form of the given sentence.
The police beat a number of protestors last night.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is "A number of protestors were beaten by the police last night".
Key Points
- In Active Voice, a sentence emphasizes the subject, performing an action.
- In Passive Voice, a sentence emphasizes the action or the object of the sentence.
- The given sentence is in the active voice and 'The police' is the subject and 'a number of protestors' is the object.
- When we convert this sentence into passive voice, the subject 'The police' of the active voice becomes the object, the object 'a number of protestors' becomes the subject.
- The passive format "were + V3" should be used.
- This is the active and passive voice rule for the past simple tense.
- Hence, the correct answer is option 4.
Additional Information
- Verbs of passive format have a different set of tenses (*V3 - Past participle or Third form of the Verb) as given below in the table:
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