Question

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

You have lived long enough to write your memories.

• A. lived, Active
• B. lived, Passive
• C. write, Active
• D. write, Passive

Answer 1

The correct option is A lived, Active

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 what a person or thing does. Therefore the sentence proves to be in active form along with the verb which is identified as past participle form.

Whereas, option B states the sentence to be passive; option C contains present verb "write" and is active and option D contains present verb "write" and states it to be passive. Therefore, these three options are incorrect.