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)
Responses
The team would have won without all the mistakes.
The team would have won without all the mistakes.
The team's loss was caused by mistakes being made.
The team's loss was caused by mistakes being made.
Mistakes made the team lose.
Mistakes made the team lose.
The team lost the game because players made mistakes.
The team lost the game because players made mistakes.
The sentence "The team's loss was caused by mistakes being made" turns the original sentence into passive voice.
To turn the given sentence into passive voice, we need to focus on making the subject of the sentence receive the action rather than perform it. The appropriate option that achieves this is:
"The team's loss was caused by mistakes being made."
In this sentence, the subject "the team's loss" is now the receiver of the action "caused," and the emphasis is on the mistakes that were made. Therefore, this option changes the sentence into passive voice.