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Dan Angelo caught a ten-foot shark off Block Island. Is this a Active or Passive voice?

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Answer: Active.

The subject of the sentence did the action.

Step-by-step explanation:

To make it passive: add a form of "be" and the verb is a past participle. And move the object to the subject, and the agent subject to object of preposition "by"

A ten-foot shark was caught off Block Island by Dan Angelo.

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Answer:

Active voice

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence "Dan Angelo caught a ten-foot shark off Block Island." is in active voice. If it were in passive voice, it would look like this:

A ten-foot shark was caught off Block Island.

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