Which of the following sentences is written in passive voice?

the canadian dominion government is very oppressive.

with such a license it is unlawful to sell a stick of wood for any purpose.

one could easily jump the claim and claim it for themselves by acquiring a permit.

the story is told of a miner in a hospital who was about to die.

D) The story is told of a miner in a hospital who was about to die.

Explanation:

To identify passive voice, we have to look at what happened and look at who was responsible for doing it. Since the person or responsible for doing the action is omitted, and we see a past participle of a transitive verb straight after the form of verb “to be”, then we know that the sentence is written in passive voice.

The transitive verb “to tell” takes its direct object, “the story”, as the subject of the passive construction. “The story” is told.

This sentence does not mention who tells the story of the miner, because we use the passive voice when it is not so important ( or unknown ) who or what did the action.

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