No, this sentence is not a verb phrase, because the subject is not part of the verb phrase here.
Here's why. The subject is "I," the verb is "believed," and everything following the verb ("every word he said") forms the object of the verb. By definition, a verb phrase is one verb + its various objects or modifiers. Here, "every word he said" operates as one single object (it's not just one word, it's EVERY word, and it's not just every word, it's every word HE said). But the subject is separate from the verb phrase, so the entire sentence is not a verb phrase (it's a subject + a verb phrase).
The best answer among the following choices would be the third option C).
<span>She states that the founding documents confer rights on all people, including women, and therefore women are entitled to vote.</span>
Answer: The cat was ran over by the yellow car.
Explanation:
When we use passive voice, we place focus on an object/person that experiences an action, instead of the object/person that performs the action (as in active voice). The object in the active sentence thus becomes the subject in the passive sentence.
The yellow car ran over <u>the cat.</u>
<u>The cat</u> was ran over by the yellow car.
As evident in this example, a passive construction consists of <em>verb to be (was)</em> + <em>past participle (ran).</em>
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