Question

unit review: editing and proofreading

active or passive voice
active voice -

• the subject is the doer of the action

passive voice -

• the action is being done to the subject

ask yourself:

• who is the sentence about?
• where is the verb in the sentence?
• did the subject do or receive the action?

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which of the following is written in active voice?
my husband cooked dinner.
the food had been burned.
we had been left with no choice.

Explanation:

In this sentence, the subject "My husband" is the doer of the action "cooked", which fits the definition of active voice. The other two sentences use passive voice: in "The food had been burned", the action is done to the subject "the food"; in "We had been left with no choice", the action is done to the subject "we".

Answer:

My husband cooked dinner.