Question

Change into Passive voice: They were talking about you.

Answer 1

Hint: The passive voice is a grammatical voice formation that can be found in many languages. The grammatical subject expresses the theme or patient of the main verb in a clause with passive voice – that is, the person or thing who suffers the action or has its condition modified.

Complete answer:
Let's start with the passive voice and then move on to the above-mentioned statement. When a sentence is written in a passive voice, the verb acts on the subject, and the subject usually comes after the action. For example, in the phrase "dancing is something I do," the action is "dancing" and the subject is "I."

There are several ways to convert a statement to passive voice, however, we are dealing with simple past tense in the offered questions. So that's all we'll talk about. To switch to passive voice, use the following formula: subject+ were +being +past particle +by + object. As you may know, the subject of a passive voice sentence is the sentence's object, correct?

Taking into account the formula, the following sentence – ‘They were talking about you’ into: “You were being talked about (by them)”. The action's recipient ("you") appears before the passive verb ("were being talked about"). We can even omit the doer in a passive voice statement if the sentence makes sense without it. Otherwise, you'll have to include the doer.

Note: The most basic criterion for turning a sentence to passive voice is that the object of the phrase takes the place of the subject. It's important to remember not to affect the tense or meaning of the original sentence while shifting it to passive voice.