how the given sentence could be transformed into passive voice : whom the police held guilty of forgery ?
The passive is just turning the sentence around so that the subject in the active sentence is not the subject in the passive sentence, yet the meaning stays the same.
He hit the baseball. (active; the subject did the action.)
The baseball was hit by him. (passive; the subject didn't do the action.)
Your sentence:
The police held him guilty of forgery.
How could you rephrase that?
thankyou writeacher could it be posible if passive voice is written like the given expression. overlook and correct me if i am wrong: 1.whom the police held guilty of forgery? 2.the police held someone guilty of forgery 3.someone was held by the police guilty of forgery. 4.was someone held for guilty of forgery by the police ?
To transform the given sentence into the passive voice, follow these steps:
1. Identify the subject, verb, and object of the sentence. In this case, the subject is "the police," the verb is "held," and the object is "whom guilty of forgery."
2. Move the object ("whom guilty of forgery") to the beginning of the sentence and change it to the subject of the passive voice sentence.
"Whom guilty of forgery" becomes "Guilty of forgery."
3. Place the verb ("held") in the passive voice form "was/were + past participle" after the new subject. Since the verb "held" is in the past tense, use the past participle form of "hold," which is "held."
4. Add "by" before the original subject (the police) to indicate who performed the action.
By + The police + was/were + past participle + (original object)
Therefore, the transformation of the sentence would be:
"Guilty of forgery was held by the police."