Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice. The report was written by the manager.
The manager wrote the report.
Identify the tense. ‘Was written’ is the simple past passive. Converting to the active voice keeps that tense exactly.
Making the change. The agent after by — ‘the manager’ — becomes the subject; the passive subject ‘the report’ becomes the object; and the verb takes the simple past active form wrote.
That gives ‘The manager wrote the report.’
Why the others fail — all three are active but in the wrong tense:
‘The manager is writing the report.’ — present continuous, an action in progress now.
‘The manager has written the report.’ — present perfect. This is the closest wrong answer: the report is finished in both readings, but the perfect links the action to the present moment, whereas was written fixes it in past time.
‘The manager writes the report.’ — simple present, describing a habitual action.
Method: name the tense of the given sentence before reading the options. Voice change never alters tense, so any option in a different tense can be struck out immediately.
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