Select the correct active voice form of the given sentence.
All the inmates were rescued from the building by the firemen.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4 i.e. The firemen rescued all the inmates from the building.
- Sentence structure of passive voice: Subject + V2 + Object.
- Sentence structure of active voice: Object + was/were+ V3 + Subject.
- 'All the inmates' is the subject of the given sentence, and 'the firemen' is the object of the sentence.
- On conversion, the subject and object always interchange places.
- 'were rescued' will be changed to 'rescued'.
- The preposition by will be removed.
The correct active voice sentence is:
The firemen rescued all the inmates from the building.