Question

read the sentence.
Jameson dropped and broke the cookie jar while his parents were on vacation.
what is the best explanation for why the writer would revise this sentence to use passive voice?
A. the writer does not know who dropped the cookie jar.
B. the writer does not know how the cookie jar broke
C. the writer wants to conceal the identity of the person who broke the jar
D. the writer wants to conceal the location of the broken cookie jar

Answer 1

The answer is C.....

Answer 2

The correct answer is option C - The writer wants to conceal the identity of the person who broke the jar.

The passive voice is used to emphasize the action and the object of a sentence rather than the subject.

The most common uses of passive voice are:

1-Reports of crimes or incidents with an unknown actor.

2-Scientific Texts.

3-When you want to emphasize the action and the doer of the action is irrelevant.

As regards grammatical form, it is made up of the auxiliary verb to be + past participle.