Question

Questions 11–12: Change from the active to the passive voice. 11. The head chef changed the menu to honor the restaurant’s foreign guests. 12. My mother decorated the living room in shades of lavender and teal.

Answer 1

The answers are:

11. To honor the restauran's foreign guests, The head chef changed the menu.

2. The living room was decorated in shades of lavender an teal by my mother.

Explanation

To change a sentence in English from the active voice to the passive voice:

1. Look at the sentence carefully and determine the subject of the sentence.

2. Determine the object of the sentence.

3. Put the object in the front of the sentence and place the subject towards the end of the sentence.

Answer 2

When we switch a sentence from active voice to passive voice, it is important to identify the doer of the action and the object or complement of the verb. The subject goes first in active, whereas in passive the object appears first.  In the first sentence, "The menu" is the object, accordingly the sentence should be:

The menu was changed by the head chef to honor the restaurant's foreign guests.

In the second example the object is the living room:

My living room was decorated by my mother in shades of lavender and teal.