Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the sentence that changes the voice of the following sentence.

People speak English all over the world.

  1. English is spoken all over the world.

  2. All over the world, people speak English.

  3. English is spoken by the people all over the world.

  4. English was spoken all over the world.
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Explanation

The sentence in active voice contains an indefinite or vague pronoun as subject, i.e. people. In such cases, the agent with ‘by’ is usually avoided. The verb in active sentence is in simple present. It changes into ‘is/am/are + v3’ (v3 – past participle).

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