Question

Identify the past participle in the following sentence and choose whether it is in Active or Passive voice:

The papers should be collected.

• A. collected - Active
• B. collected - Passive
• C. be - Active
• D. be - Passive

Answer 1

The correct option is B collected - Passive

When a subject is directly acting on the object, the sentence is written in Active voice

When the object is acted upon by the subject, the sentence is written in Passive voice.

Option B is correct because the given sentence shows what the object does on subject. Therefore the sentence proves to be in passive form along with the verb which is identified as past participle form.

'be' is not in the form of past participle. Therefore options C and D are incorrect.

Whereas option A states the sentence to be in active voice which is incorrect.

Correct answer is option B.