Question

Label the sentence below as active or passive.

The statistics were collected by a researcher.
a. active
b. passive
Please select the best answer from the choices provided
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Answer 1

Passive

Step-by-step explanation:

Active voice means that a sentence has a subject that acts upon its verb. Passive voice means that a subject is a recipient of a verb’s action. You may have learned that the passive voice is weak and incorrect, but it isn’t that simple.

Answer 2

The answer is b. passive.

Step-by-step explanation:

The passive voice is used to give more importance to the object rather than the subject, in this case "The statistics" here are more important than the researcher. You can identify the passive voice often because you use: was or were, after the object, followed by the verb in the participle of the verb, and if needed, a by phrase to mention the doer. Which is this example:

• The statistics (object) were (verb to be in the past) collected (participle) by (to mention the doer) a researcher (the subject).