Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice.
All the electric poles in the suburbs were destroyed by the cyclone last year.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct option that expresses the given sentence in active voice is The cyclone destroyed all the electric poles in the suburbs last year.
The other options are incorrect because:
- All the electric poles in the suburbs were destroyed by the cyclone last year is in the passive voice.
- The cyclone was being destroyed with all the electric poles in the suburbs last year is grammatically incorrect. The verb "to be" is followed by a present participle, but the verb "to destroy" is not a present participle.
- The cyclone was destroyed by the all the electric poles in the suburbs last year is grammatically incorrect. The preposition "by" should be followed by a noun or a pronoun, but the phrase "all the electric poles" is a noun phrase.
- The cyclone destroyed all the suburbs by the electric poles last year is grammatically incorrect. The preposition "by" should be followed by a noun or a pronoun, but the phrase "all the suburbs" is a noun phrase.