Question

Change the following statement into passive voice-
We added up the money and found that it was correct.
a)The money was added up and found to be correct.
b)Correct it was found and the money was added up.
c)The money added up by us and it was correctly found.
d)The money added up by us and found it was correct.

Answer 1

Hint: Read the sentence and understand what it means. Now try to convey the same information to a third person. Go through the options and look for the one which is closest to the sentence you just formed. Make sure that it is grammatically sound.

Complete answer: Active voice means that a sentence has a subject that acts upon its verb. Passive voice means that a subject is a recipient of a verb’s action. At the most basic level, the active voice emphasizes the person or agent who performs an action, in short, the “actor.” The passive voice emphasizes the recipient of the action or sometimes the action itself.
The given sentence is in the active voice, and there are two parts of this sentence, the clauses “We added the money” and “we found” that it was correct”. The subject ‘we’ performs the action ‘added’ and in the second part the subject ‘we’ is implied; it performs the action ‘found’.
‘Subject (we) + verb (added) + object (the money)’ will change to ‘subject (the money) + verb (was added)’
And
‘Subject (implied) + verb (found) + object (that it was correct)’ changes to:
‘New subject (implied) + verb (found) + infinitive verb (to be correct)’
The ‘that’ clause is a relative clause that functions as the object of the verb ‘found’.
Option ‘a' is the correct option as if this sentence is changed to passive voice, then the subject, verb form and object are all changed, in order to retain the meaning of the sentence.
So, the object takes the place of the subject and vice versa and the word ‘by’ is introduced as now the subject receives the action by the object. The verb form of the sentence is also changed from active form to passive.
All the other options are plausible distractions.
Hence, option ‘a’ is the correct option.

Note: To change an active voice sentence to a passive voice sentence - Make the object of the active sentence into the subject of the passive sentence.