Learn English – the active form of ‘I must be scolded for the folly.’

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I must be scolded for my folly.

Please kindly change into active. I changed it like this: is it correct?

He must scold me for my folly.

Best Answer

A passive voice sentence does not specify the agent - who is doing something - unless you add the agent using the preposition by. This is one of the main reasons for using passive voice- when you don't know, or it's not important to specify, who is the agent.

Given a passive voice sentence without an agent, it is not possible to convert it to active voice because the agent must become the subject of the active voice sentence.

I must be scolded for my folly -> [agent] must scold me for my folly.

If you can fill in the agent, you will have an active voice version of the sentence.