Answer:
a. active voice: The police officer arrested the man.
(The police officer is the subject of the sentence and is performing the action of arresting.)
b. passive voice: The man was arrested by the police officer.
(The man is the subject of the sentence but he is not performing the action of arresting.)
A shortcut to try and identify passive construction in your writing is to look for an extra “be” verb (is, are, was, were) and the word “by”.
a. active voice: The police officer arrested the man.
b. passive voice: The man was arrested by the police officer. The man was arrested.
Explanation:
The common people.
In the book, the nobles replaced the goods that they gave to Odysseus by the common people.
I hope this helps.
True, there are clauses which perform as adjectives, adverbs and nouns.
Answer:I think that most of the claims listed above could be argued well with specific evidence from Thoreau's essay, but I would be a little suspicious of one of the claims and downright skeptical about another one. To me, Thoreau seems disturbed by the emphasis on technological "improvements" in his day, such as the telegraph and railroad, but does he really believe that technology is the "primary cause of distress"? Right now, I really don't know, so I would wait to see how well the writer could support this interpretation before I would make up my mind
Explanation: cause i did it and I got 100% :D
