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Consider the following pair of sentences: Active: “Researchers conducted the experiment...

Consider the following pair of sentences:


Active:

“Researchers conducted the experiment carefully.”

Passive:

“The experiment was conducted carefully (by researchers).”


Point the alternative that describes the functional difference between the active and passive constructions:


A

The passive construction foregrounds the patient (the experiment) by moving it to subject position, reducing the prominence of the agent.


B

The passive construction reverses the roles of agent and patient, emphasizing the doer rather than the action.


C

The active voice suppresses the agent, while the passive voice obligatorily expresses it


D

The passive form is ungrammatical because adverbs of manner cannot appear after passive verbs.


E

The passive voice changes the meaning of the verb conduct into a stative interpretation.