Direction: Rewrite the sentence in Passive voice. The farmer produces wheat.
Wheat is produced by the farmer
Passive Voice Conversion: The farmer produces wheat
The task is to rewrite the given active voice sentence into the passive voice. The sentence provided is:
Active Sentence: The farmer produces wheat.
Understanding Active vs. Passive Voice
In the active voice, the subject performs the action. In the passive voice, the subject receives the action.
- Active Voice Structure: Subject + Verb + Object
- Passive Voice Structure: Object + Verb 'to be' + Past Participle + by + Subject
Identifying Tense and Applying Passive Voice Rules
The original sentence, "The farmer produces wheat," is in the simple present tense. The verb 'produces' indicates this.
To convert this sentence to the passive voice:
- Identify the object of the active sentence: wheat. This becomes the subject of the passive sentence.
- Determine the correct form of the verb 'to be'. Since the original tense is simple present and the new subject 'wheat' is singular, the correct form is is.
- Find the past participle of the main verb 'produce'. The past participle is produced.
- Add the preposition 'by' followed by the subject of the active sentence, 'the farmer'.
Following these steps, the passive voice construction is:
Wheat + is + produced + by the farmer
Resulting in: Wheat is produced by the farmer.
Analyzing the Options
Let's examine each option based on the rules of passive voice conversion for the simple present tense:
| Option | Sentence | Tense and Voice Analysis |
| 1 | Wheat was produced by the farmer | Passive voice, but in the simple past tense. Incorrect for the original sentence's tense. |
| 2 | Wheat has been produced by the farmer | Passive voice, but in the present perfect tense. Incorrect. |
| 3 | Wheat had produced by the farmer | Grammatically incorrect passive voice structure. Should be 'had been produced'. Tense is past perfect. Incorrect. |
| 4 | Wheat is produced by the farmer | Passive voice in the correct simple present tense. Matches the required conversion. Correct. |
Therefore, the correct passive voice transformation of "The farmer produces wheat" is "Wheat is produced by the farmer".
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