Summary of Hollis woods pages 1-3

active voice: my father cut the tree.

passive voice: the tree was cut by my father.

active voice: people buy newspapers every day.

passive voice: newspapers are bought (by people) every day.

active voice: people have been using movies as political propaganda since world war ii.

passive voice: movies have been used as political propaganda since world war ii.

active voice: donna gave me my birthday present.

passive voice: i was given my birthday present (by donna). / my birthday present was given to me (by donna).

active voice: mom will leave the keys on the counter.

passive voice: the keys will be left (by mom) on the counter.

the words in parentheses are the agent of the passive voice and can be omitted when obvious, generic, or simply unnecessary.

i would need the dialogue to answer this.

i say that the right answer is: three personal subject pronouns. that’s because you will see “she” two times, referring to the librarian, and “they” one time, referring to the books. personal subject pronouns are used to replace common nouns or proper names.

the only possessive noun it’s present on the first sentence, when the speaker refers to “his” father.