Question

Change these sentences from the active voice to the passive vo

1. The students collected and delivered the food on time.
2. Open the window and let the breeze in.
3. The soldiers rescued the stranded visitors and took them to nearby hotels.
4. I have planted many flowers in my garden.
5. Complete the work.
6. Give her what she wants.
7. The river has eroded the banks extensively.
8. Place the book on the corner table.
9. The nightingale pecked at a purple flower.
10. The hungry lion chased the gazelles,
11. She will have driven the car a hundred miles by then.
12. Suresh and Vishal watched the clowns performing tricks.
13. The woodcutter cut down the tree using his axe.
14. Apoorv bought sweets from Lucknow.
15. Water filled the parking area after the rain.

Answer 1

1. The food was collected and delivered on time by the students. To change from the active voice to the passive voice, you have to take the object of the sentence and turn it into the subject. Since this new subject did not do the action, the verb will now be written as a past participle.
2. The window is open and the breeze is let in. Here, there were 2 objects in the original sentence: "window" and "breeze."
3. The stranded visitors were rescued by the soldiers and taken to nearby hotels.
4. Many flowers are planted in my garden. Here, it is understood that the person owning the garden is the one who planted the flowers ("in my garden"). Therefore, you don't need to write "planted by me" because that would be redundant and ugly.
5. The work needs to be completed. Sometimes, when the active voice was using the imperative mode, you have to get a little creative when rewriting it in the passive voice. You can use modals like need, may, or should so that your sentence makes sense.
6. She may be given what she wants.
7. The banks are extensively eroded by the river.
8. The book should be placed on the corner table.
9. A purple flower was pecked at by a nightingale.
10. The gazelles were chased by the hungry lion.
11. Her car will have been driven a hundred miles by then.
12. The clowns were watched perform tricks by Suresh and Vishal.
13. The tree was cut down by the woodcutter using his axe.
14. Sweets were brought from Locknow by Apoorv.
15. After the rain, the parking area was filled with water.