Choose the option that is the active form of the given sentence. Were you…

Solution:

Original sentence (passive): Were you scared by the strange voice?

How to convert to active voice:

• Identify the agent and the patient in the passive sentence. Patient (object) = you. Agent = the strange voice.

• Make the agent the subject of the active sentence and the patient the object.

• Change the verb from passive past (were scared) to the active past-question form. Past simple questions use did + base verb: did + scare.

Correct active-question form:

Did the strange voice scare you?

Why the other choices are wrong:

• Does the strange voice scare you?: Uses present simple, which asks about a current/habitual situation rather than the past event described in the original sentence.

• Had the strange voice scared you?: Uses past perfect and changes the time reference; it is not the correct conversion of the past passive in this context.

• Was the strange voice scared you?: Ungrammatical. The structure does not form a correct question in English and does not match the intended meaning.