Question

Change the following statement into passive voice.
They pick the fresh flowers every morning.
a. The fresh flowers are picked every morning by them.
b. The flowers are fresh and picked every morning by them.
c. The flowers are picked fresh every morning by them.
d. The picked flowers are fresh every morning by them.

Answer 1

Hint:Read the sentence and try to convey it to a third person in your own words. Then, go through the given options and see which ones resemble the sentence you just formed in your head, that is, passive voice. Make sure that the sentences are not unnecessarily lengthened. Choose the correct option accordingly.

Complete answer: Let us first understand what active and passive voices are. Active voice means that the given sentence has a subject that performs its verb. In short, this means that the subject is visible or is present in the sentence. For example, in the given question, the sentence ‘They pick the fresh flowers every morning’, the subject is ‘they’.
Passive voice means that a subject is in place of an object , i.e. a recipient of a verb’s action. This means that the subject is not outrightly seen. It is usually there, but is considered invisible. At the end of a passive voice sentence, to make the subject seen, you just add ‘by someone’. This becomes the default subject. However, in the given sentence there is no need to add an extra subject as it is not invisible.

In order to convert the active voice into passive voice, all you need to do is change the order of the parts of speech. So, the ‘subject + verb + object’ in active voice changes to ‘object + verb + (subject)’ in passive voice. We also need to make sure that the words remain, more or less, the same.
Now, we know what we are looking for. Let’s look at the given options:
a. The fresh flowers are picked every morning by them. - In this sentence, the order of
the parts of speech have been reversed correctly, it uses the correct tense and verb. This is
the required answer. So, this is the correct option.
b. The flowers are fresh and picked every morning by them. - In this sentence, the original subject has been changed. The tense has also been changed. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.
c. The flowers are picked fresh every morning by them. - In this sentence, the original subject has been changed. The tense has also been changed. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.
d. The picked flowers are fresh every morning by them. - In this sentence, the order of words is jumbled. This is not the required answer. So, this is an incorrect option.
Therefore, option a is correct.

Note: In active voice, the subject plays a pivotal and important role in the sentence. However, in passive voice, the object is considered the important part, as it is placed first. Sometimes, it is not outrightly visible, nor is it a command.