In a country known for its collective thought, the individual is rarely brought into the spotlight.
(Taken from a CNN article).
This is a sentence I would want to convert it from passive to active. I have no clue how to do this. (I do know how passive and active voices work).
Any help?
Best Answer
Without going into grammatical issues such as what "known" is, whether it is in the passive voice or not, whether it is a verb or an adjective, and such, and without caring about the risk of information loss or change due to the difference in information delivery, which is the whole point of the passive voice, you can rewrite the sentence with know like this:
(You may also find this good answer on relative clauses and pied-piping useful.)