The wild sea tossed and lifted the boat. Changes the passive voice to the active voice or the active voice to the passive voice.
Active voice: The boat tossed and lifted by the wild sea.
Passive voice: The boat was tossed and lifted by the wild sea.
To change the passive voice to the active voice, the sentence would be revised as: "The boat was tossed and lifted by the wild sea."
To change the active voice to the passive voice, the sentence would be revised as: "The wild sea tossed and lifted the boat."
To change a sentence from active voice to passive voice or vice versa, you need to understand the subject and object of the sentence.
In the given sentence, "The wild sea tossed and lifted the boat," the subject is "the wild sea," and the object is "the boat."
Changing from active voice to passive voice:
Active voice: The wild sea tossed and lifted the boat.
Passive voice: The boat was tossed and lifted by the wild sea.
In the passive voice sentence, the subject ("the wild sea") becomes the object, and the object ("the boat") becomes the subject. The verb "tossed and lifted" remains the same, but now "by the wild sea" is added to indicate who performed the action.
Changing from passive voice to active voice:
Passive voice: The boat was tossed and lifted by the wild sea.
Active voice: The wild sea tossed and lifted the boat.
In the active voice sentence, the object ("the boat") becomes the subject, and the subject ("the wild sea") remains the same. The verb "tossed and lifted" also remains unchanged.
By understanding the subject, object, and verb of a sentence, you can convert it from active voice to passive voice or vice versa.