is Ryan saw the Northern Lights on his vacation to Sweden a passive voice or active voice

Question

Determine if the sentence below is written in the active or passive voice.

Ryan saw the Northern Lights on his vacation to Sweden.

passive voice

active voice

Answer 1

It's active voice because the subject (Ryan) is doing the seeing.  Passive voice would be:

 

The Northern Lights were seen by Ryan on his vacation.

 

In the above sentence, the subject is Northern Lights and they are not the ones doing the seeing.