Label the sentence below as active or passive. A philanthropist supplied the funding for research. a. active b. passive

We need to first understand the difference between active and passive voice to be able to answer this question.

Active voice means that the subject of the sentence is doing the action (which is what you want in writing). For example, Harry ate six shrimp at dinner. In this sentence, Harry is the subject and he is the one doing the action of eating.

Passive voice is when you have a sentence where an object is doing the action, not a subject. For example: At dinner, six shrimp were eaten by Harry. This does technically make sense, but it's confusing. It's set up so that the shrimp are the subject, but they aren't doing the eating, Harry is.

With this in mind, let's look at your sentence to see if it's active or passive. In your sentence, philanthropist is the subject. The verb is supplied. Because of this, we can determine that this particular sentence is active voice because the subject of the sentence is doing what the verb says.