Naming the voice
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Question
- 'They punished the offenders' is
- Choices
- active
- passive
- neither
- Correct choice
- active
- Question
- 'The offenders were punished' is
- Choices
- active
- passive
- neither
- Correct choice
- passive
- Question
- 'They are punished by fear' is
- Choices
- active
- passive, agent omitted
- passive, agent stated
- Correct choice
- passive, agent stated
- Question
- 'They are punished' is
- Choices
- passive, agent omitted
- active
- passive, agent stated
- Correct choice
- passive, agent omitted
Explanation
Read the sentence and say which voice it is in. Source: An English Grammar, Baskervill and Sewell (1896), sections 209-211.