Question

Identify the Past Participle(s) in the following sentence and say whether it is in Active or Passive form.
The mob has dispersed.
A) dispersed, Active
B) dispersed, Passive
C) has dispersed, Active
D) has dispersed, Passive

Answer 1

Hint: Remember that when a subject is directly acting on the object, the sentence is written in Active voice and when the object is acted upon by the subject, the sentence is written in Passive voice.

Complete answer:
We have learned that an 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. Now let us see how we can go about analyzing the four options to find the correct answer.

Option A is correct because the given sentence shows what the subject has done. Therefore the sentence proves to be in active form along with the verb which is identified as the past participle form.

Whereas, option B states the sentence to be passive but it has the verb in the past participle, which makes the alternative grammatically incorrect.

Option C contains the present perfect and is active which proves to be incorrect because only past participle is to be identified.

And lastly, option D contains present perfect instead of identifying only the past participle verb and also states it to be passive which is incorrect.

Note:
Read the question very carefully, it has demanded two things from the answer. A lot of students make this mistake of not reading the question completely and choosing the alternative with just one part of the answer. Avoid that.