Question

Identify the past participle in the following sentence and say whether it is in active or passive form.

The horse was frightened by the noise.

• A. frightened, Passive
• B. frightened, Active
• C. was frightened, Active
• D. was frightened, Passive

Answer 1

The correct option is A frightened, 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 A is correct because the given sentence shows that the object is acted upon by the subject what the subject has done. Therefore the sentence proves to be in passive form along with the verb 'frightened' which is identified as past participle form.

Whereas, option B states the sentence to be active; option D contains simple past form and is active which proves to be incorrect because only past participle is to identified and option C contains simple past form instead of identifying only the past participle verb and also states it to be active which is incorrect. Therefore, these three options are incorrect.

Option A is the correct answer.