English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice

English Grammar
English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice

Convert the sentence provided below from its passive voice structure to an active voice structure: The package is delivered to the office every morning.


Options:

  1. The office delivers the package every morning.
  2. Someone delivers the package to the office every morning.
  3. The office has delivered the package every morning.
  4. The package delivers itself to the office every morning.

Right Answer: Someone delivers the package to the office every morning.

The passive sentence gives no agent, since it does not say by whom the package is delivered. When the doer is unknown or unimportant, the active version must supply an indefinite subject such as 'someone', 'people' or 'they'. Option two does this correctly and preserves both the simple present tense and the prepositional phrase 'to the office'. Option one wrongly makes 'the office' the doer, when in fact the office is the destination. Option three changes the tense to the present perfect, and option four absurdly makes the package deliver itself. Hence option two is correct.

This question is part of English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice, which has 15 practice questions with answers.

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