Question

Change the following statement into active voice.
This shirt cannot be worn by me any longer.
a. I cannot wear this shirt any longer.
b. Wearing of this shirt any longer is not possible.
c. This shirt is too worn out any longer.
d. This worn out shirt cannot be worn any longer.

Answer 1

Hint:
 Understand the concepts of active and passive voice. It is easier to understand it with the given examples. Then, go through the given options and see which ones best fit the description of active voice. Choose the correct option accordingly.

Complete answer:
Let us first understand what active and passive voices are. Active voice means that the given sentence has a subject that performs its verb. In short, this means that the subject is visible or is present in the sentence. For example, in the given question, the sentence ‘Ann has invited some of Ann’s friends to her flat’, the subject is Ann, and the object is ‘her friends’.

Passive voice means that a subject is in place of an object, i.e. a recipient of a verb’s action. This means that the subject is not outrightly seen. It is usually there but is considered invisible. At the end of a passive voice sentence, to make the subject seen, you just add ‘by someone’. This becomes the default subject.

In order to convert the active voice into the passive voice, all you need to do is change the order of the parts of speech. So, the ‘subject + verb + object’ in active voice changes to ‘object + verb + (subject)’ in the passive voice. So, in order to convert passive into active, we do the exact opposite.

Now, we know what we are looking for. Let’s look at the given options-
a. I cannot wear this shirt any longer. - This sentence is in the active voice, and the tense and verb match the subject. This is the required answer. So, this is the correct option.
b. Wearing of this shirt any longer is not possible. - This sentence is in the passive voice, however, it is grammatically inconsistent as the parts of speech are not arranged correctly. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.
c. This shirt is too worn out any longer. - This sentence is in the passive voice, however, it is grammatically inconsistent as the parts of speech are not arranged correctly. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.
d. This worn-out shirt cannot be worn any longer. - This sentence is in the passive voice, however, it is grammatically inconsistent as the parts of speech are not arranged correctly. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.

Note:
 In active voice, the subject performs the action, however, in the passive voice, the subject is placed at the end of the sentence. It is sometimes not outrightly visible, nor is it a command.