Practicing Success
Select the correct active voice of the given sentence. The poems of great English poets are being translated into other languages. |
They were translating the poems of great English poets into other languages. They are translating the poems of great English poets into other languages. They have translated the poems of great English poets into other languages. They translated the poems of great English poets into other languages. |
They are translating the poems of great English poets into other languages. |
The correct active voice of the given sentence is They are translating the poems of great English poets into other languages. The passive voice of the sentence is "The poems of great English poets are being translated into other languages." This sentence is in the present progressive tense, which is used to describe an action that is happening now but is not finished. The passive voice of the sentence is formed by putting the subject of the active sentence after the verb "to be" and the present participle of the main verb. In this case, the subject of the active sentence is "poems" and the main verb is "translate." The past participle of "translate" is "translated." So, the passive form of the sentence is "The poems of great English poets are being translated into other languages." The active voice of the sentence is formed by putting the subject of the passive sentence before the verb and removing the word "by." In this case, the subject of the passive sentence is "they" and the verb is "translate." So, the active form of the sentence is "They are translating the poems of great English poets into other languages." The other options are incorrect because:
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