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Oksi-84 [34.3K]
3 years ago
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Need help figuring out which sentence is written in the passive voice.

English
1 answer:
earnstyle [38]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

A. Kwame's whole life had been directed by his father - a powerful, confident man who ran an advertising agency.

Explanation:

In grammar, the term <em>voice </em>refers to the relationship between the action expressed by the verb and the participants of the described event (subject and object). In English, there are two types of voice:

  • Active voice - the subject that acts upon its verb.
  • Passive voice - the subject is a recipient of a verb's action.

Sentence A is the one written in the passive voice. <em>Kwame's whole life </em>is the subject but is the recipient of the action expressed by the verb <em>directed</em>. Kwame's father is the one performing this action, and we can see this with the help of the prepositional phrase with the preposition <em>by </em>(<em>by his father</em>). In active voice, the given sentence would look like this:

  • <em>His father, a powerful, confident man who ran an advertising agency, had directed Kwame's whole life.</em>
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