Question

Rewrite the following sentence according to the instructions given. Make other changes that may be necessary, but do not change the meaning of the sentence
She found your keys in the garage. (Begin : The keys ....)

Answer 1

Hint: Ensure that you are aware of active voice and passive voice. In the given sentence, try to find out the subject and the object. Later, follow the clue given in the question, i.e. to start the sentence by using first the keys and then make the sentence using the given sentence. If you change the voice correctly, the meaning of the sentence will not be changed.

Complete answer:
In active voice, we give importance to the doer of the action, but in the passive voice, the object of given importance. Therefore, depending upon your need you must use the voices appropriately. To change from active voice to passive voice, change the subject in active voice to object in passive voice and the object in active voice to subject in passive voice.

In the given sentence, ‘she’ is the subject and ‘the keys’ is the object. Therefore, it should be interchanged when we convert to passive voice. Now, the sentence will be ‘The keys were found in Garage by her’.

Therefore, the correct answer is ‘The keys were found in Garage by her’.

Note: While changing from active voice to o passive voice the meaning of the sentence never changes. The structure of an active voice is ‘Subject + verb + object’, but when converted to passive voice it changes to ‘Object + was/were (when the sentence is in past tense) + V3 + Subject’. Passive voice always has a past participle form of the verb in the sentence.