Question

2 вопрос: The sailors (to paint) the ship's hull yesterday ? Active or indifinite Passive ?

Answer 1

The sailors painted the ship's hull yesterday. (Past Indefinite Active)

Answer 2

The sailors painted the ship's hull yesterday.

This sentence is in the active voice. In the active voice, the subject (the sailors) performs the action (painted) on the object (the ship's hull). To convert it into the indefinite passive voice, you would use the past participle of the main verb "paint" (painted) and add the appropriate form of the verb "to be" (was/were) before it.

Indefinite Passive: The ship's hull was painted yesterday.

In the indefinite passive voice, the focus is on the object (the ship's hull) rather than the doer of the action (the sailors). However, in this case, the active voice sentence is already well-structured, and the passive voice version might sound less natural without additional context.