{"id":223142,"date":"2025-06-01T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=223142"},"modified":"2025-06-01T09:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T09:22:30","slug":"did-the-mechanic-fix-your-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/01\/did-the-mechanic-fix-your-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the mechanic fix your car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Did the mechanic fix your car? what is the answer of it if we will change it into passive voice
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Correct Answer and Explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passive Voice Version:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Was your car fixed by the mechanic?”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n

Explanation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The sentence “Did the mechanic fix your car?”<\/strong> is in the active voice<\/strong>, where the subject “the mechanic”<\/strong> performs the action (fixing) on the object “your car.”<\/strong> To change it into the passive voice<\/strong>, we shift the focus from the doer (mechanic)<\/strong> to the receiver of the action (your car).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step-by-Step Breakdown:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
    \n
  1. Identify the components:<\/strong>\n
      \n
    • Subject (doer):<\/strong> the mechanic<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Verb (action):<\/strong> fix<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Object (receiver):<\/strong> your car<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Rearrange the sentence:<\/strong>
      • Move the object to the subject position: “your car”<\/li>
      • Use the correct form of “to be”<\/strong> for the verb tense. The original question is in past simple tense<\/strong> (did fix), so we use “was”<\/strong> (past form of “to be”) for a singular subject.<\/li>
      • Change the verb to the past participle<\/strong>: “fix” becomes “fixed.”<\/li>
      • Add “by the mechanic”<\/strong> to show who performed the action.<\/li><\/ul>Result: “Was your car fixed by the mechanic?”<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Grammatical Structure in Passive:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
          \n
        • Passive voice structure for questions in past simple tense:<\/strong>
          Was\/Were + object + past participle + (by + agent)?<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Here:\n
            \n
          • Was<\/strong> \u2013 auxiliary verb (past simple of \u201cto be\u201d)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • your car<\/strong> \u2013 subject of the passive sentence<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • fixed<\/strong> \u2013 past participle of \u201cfix\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • by the mechanic<\/strong> \u2013 optional agent (shows who did the action)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

            Why Use Passive Voice?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

            We use the passive voice when:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

              \n
            • The doer is unknown, unimportant, or implied.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
            • The focus is on the action<\/strong> or the receiver of the action<\/strong> rather than the doer<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

              In this case, if the concern is whether the car was fixed<\/strong>, the passive version emphasizes the result, not the person doing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

              So, the passive question is: \u201cWas your car fixed by the mechanic?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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              Did the mechanic fix your car? what is the answer of it if we will change it into passive voice The Correct Answer and Explanation is: Passive Voice Version: “Was your car fixed by the mechanic?” Explanation The sentence “Did the mechanic fix your car?” is in the active voice, where the subject “the mechanic” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}