Convert Passive voice to Active voice

AnonymousThe dog ate its master's food and was punished by his master for the misbehaviour.

(It's gonna sound dumb!)
The dog ate its hismaster's food and the master punished him for the misbehavior.

More dumb!

The master's food was eaten by his dog, so he punished him.

tom

Hi, Mr. Tom,
The problem here is that you have two actions and two actors. Now you've rendered the first clause in the passive voice.
It seems that in order to have both actions in the active voice, you need two independent clauses, nameing each actor as a subject.

Best wishes, - A.

Dumb and dumber!

The dog ate its his master's food and was puni

I guess I'm really missing something here.
Given:
(a) the dog ate the master's food
(b) the master punished the dog

(two actions, two actors)

Re active and passive, you have four choices:
(1) both actions in active voice
(2) both actions in passive voice
(3) action a. in active voice and action b. in passive voice
(4) action a.

Hi Avangi

Sorry for the confusion. My comment simply had to do with the fact that I saw "by the master" as being awkward and unnecessary in the original sentence.

AvangiI guess I'm really missing something here.

You missed that because I didn't explicitly say it in my previous post.

I suppose you could say,
"The master punished the dog for eating his food," but "his" is ambiguous, and I have no idea whether the non-finite verb/PP/gerund is considered "active voice."

I've now edited my first post so that it (hopefully) won't be misinterpreted.

Yankee The dog ate its his master's food and was punished for the misbehavior.

Sorry, Amy, not doin' too good here. I was still trying to figure other options when your post came in.
Yes, it's surely an ugly example. Perhaps the teacher thought he was helping the student by including all the e

Avangi"The dog ate its/his master."

I'd say the master deserves to be eaten in this case.