Question

Identify the Past Participle(s) in the following sentence and say whether it is in Active or Passive form.

A number of boys were caught copying.

• A. copying, Active
• B. copying, Passive
• C. caught, Active
• D. caught, Passive

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

caught, 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 D 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.

'copying' is the present continuous form of 'copy' and not its past participle form, therefore options A and B are incorrect.

Whereas option C states the sentence to be in active form which is incorrect.

Correct answer is option D.