Active or passive voice

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why should you do this?is this statement is a active or passive voice?

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

Active

Welle · Answer

could you explain why?

Mister Micawber · Answer

Passive is formed this way: 'be' + past participle ('-ed' verb form). That does not exist in your sentence.

Welle · Answer

so, if i understand correctly then a sentence includes passice voice could be :
"he was killed by a man"

CalifJim · Answer

Yes.

He was killed by a man.

^ ^

There you have a form of 'be' (was) and a past participle (killed).

Without those elements you can't have a passive, as already stated above.

CJ

Welle · Answer

Thanks to you CJ <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/5.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/5.gif' alt='Emotion: wink'/>

BarbaraPA · Answer

The (extremely unnatural) passive versio of the original question would be "Whey should this be done by you?" <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/36.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/36.gif' alt='Emotion: ick!'/>

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