The following sentence is written in active voice.
"Our team made many mistakes," the coach said after the team's loss.
Which option below turns this sentence into passive voice?
(1 point)
The team lost the game because players made mistakes.
The team would have won without all the mistakes.
The team's loss was caused by mistakes being made.
Mistakes made the team lose.
The team's loss was caused by mistakes being made.
The option below turns the sentence into passive voice:
The team's loss was caused by mistakes being made.
To identify the sentence in passive voice, we should look for the subject of the sentence that is receiving the action instead of performing it. In this case, the coach's statement implies that the team made mistakes, which is an active construction.
Here are the options and their analysis:
1) The team lost the game because players made mistakes.
This option keeps the active construction: "players made mistakes."
2) The team would have won without all the mistakes.
This option is not a passive construction; it describes a hypothetical situation.
3) The team's loss was caused by mistakes being made.
This option is in passive voice: "mistakes being made" describes the action happening to the subject (team).
4) Mistakes made the team lose.
This option keeps the active construction: "mistakes made."
Therefore, option (3) "The team's loss was caused by mistakes being made." is the one that turns the sentence into passive voice, where the subject (the team) is receiving the action (mistakes being made).