English » Active/Passive Voice

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice.

The coloured clothes should not be washed with the whites.

A

You should not wash the coloured clothes with the whites.

B

You should not have washed the coloured clothes with the whites.

C

Do not washed the coloured clothes with the whites.

D

Do not be washing the coloured clothes with the whites.

Solution

option A is the right answer according to the basic rules of active and passive voices for modals.

In general, we follow this structure to use modal verbs in the passive voice:

Modal verb + be + past participle