In this sentence, is the verb active or passive voice??

Question

The sentence is "The candidate won by a landslide." The verb is won. Is it used as active or passive? I think I know the answer, but would like some other answers. Explain why you answered what you did, please

Answer 1

All you need to know was whatever your talking about happened in the past.

Answer 2

It's definately active voice. Passive voice would be "The election was won by the candidate."  

Happy grammar-ing!

Answer 3

passive....because it is describing an event that already took place.

Answer 4

Definitely active voice.  Candidate is the subject, won is the verb, followed by an adverb prepositional phrase that tells how the candidate won.

If the sentence were in passive voice, it would read something like, "The election was won by the candidate by a landslide."

Just having a "by" phrase doesn't make a sentence passive voice.  Also, a direct object is not necessary for active voice.

Answer 5

Active. The candidate did the winning, and won is represented directly with candidate. If it stated "A landslide was won by the candidate." it would be passive.

Answer 6

I believe it's won because win would be the active version of that. "by a landslide" is a prepositional phrase and so right now, we can ignore that. Candidate is the subject. Candidate won. is also He won in the sense of the words, so is 'He won' active or passive? I believe it's passive

No problem.