Transform the voice to active or passive as the case may be.

Question

1. The resident physician refers the case to a psychiatrist for further diagnosis.

2. Prepare all the ingredients and materials a day before cooking the recipe.

3. The medical technician forwarded the results of the laboratory examination to the patient's doctor.

4. The secretary will draft the minutes of the special meeting immediately.

5. The roster of officers was finalized by the organization chairman after the preliminary caucus.

6. Philippine education needs a learning task force.

7. An overwhelming majority of our learners have not reached the global minimum competency

level for reading, math, and science.

8. We are facing a learning crisis.

9. The learning task force should be driven by the mission of reversing the learning crisis

10. Teachers are often criticized and blamed by my friend for bad education outcomes.

11. Finland's students spend three to four hours a day in school.

12. Most countries see the educational system as one big Darwinian competition.

13. Most senior high school students must repeat high school subjects like Algebra, Basic English and Science in order to make up for the insufficient learning in basic education.

14. People often ask me about how monotonous academic life is.

15. Our students, after years of immersion in our education system, have not developed the problem-solving and critical-thinking capacities.

Answer 1

I will briefly explain how this is done and then do a couple as examples to get you started.

An active voice sentence has the order of Subject + Verb + Object. To convert that sentence to passive: 1) The object becomes the subject, 2) the verb "be" (am, is, are, was, were) is added to the verb (keeping the verb tense of the sentence), and the action verb is changed to the past participle. The subject of the original sentence becomes a prepositional phrase that begins with the word "by." The prepositional phrase is not always stated, but can be stated if desired.

1. The case is referred to a psychiatrist by the resident physician for further diagnosis.
2. The ingredients and materials are prepared by you a day before cooking the recipe. (The original sentence is a command with the understood subject "you," which seems a bit strange because it seems to lose the "command" idea. I don't think I've ever seen a command converted to passive voice like this in this type of exercise.

Now here's a sentence that is in passive voice and what it looks like in the active voice.

(#5). The organization chairman finalized the roster of officers after the preliminary caucus.

Hope this helps.

Julie