IXL | Identify active and passive voice | 10th grade language arts

Which sentence is in passive voice?

The twenty-two-hour flight to Australia must have utterly exhausted Joe.

Joe must have been exhausted by that long flight to Australia.

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Which sentence is in passive voice?

I am excited by the prospect of living in a foreign country one day.

The prospect of potentially living in a foreign country one day excites me.

key idea

If a sentence is in active voice, the subject performs the action.

The dog bit the intruder.

The subject, the dog, performs the biting.

If a sentence is in passive voice, the subject receives the action.

The intruder was bitten by the dog.

The subject, the intruder, receives the biting.

In passive voice, the verb phrase includes a form of to be plus a past participle.

In France, the Mona Lisa is called La Joconde.

We should have been notified about the change.

solution

The first sentence is the one in passive voice. The subject receives the action, and the verb phrase am excited includes a form of to be plus a past participle.

I am excited by the prospect of living in a foreign country one day.

The second sentence is in active voice. The subject performs the action, and the verb excites does not include a form of to be plus a past participle.

The prospect of potentially living in a foreign country one day excites me.

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