Writing with Tenses / Active & Passive Voice
LESSON 154 OF 261 · 7 MIN READ

Passive → Active Practice

Find the receiver, action, and stated doer. Restore the doer as subject and keep the tense. If no doer is known, an exact active sentence cannot be recovered without inventing information.

Understand the idea

Find the receiver, action, and stated doer. Restore the doer as subject and keep the tense. If no doer is known, an exact active sentence cannot be recovered without inventing information.

Look closely

The room was cleaned by Riya. → Riya cleaned the room.

My bicycle was stolen. → Doer unknown; do not invent a person.

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A quick check

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