The audience was amazed by the performance.

revise the sentence to recast it in the active voice.

a. the performance was appreciated by the audience.
b. the audience had been amazed by the performance.
c. the performance amazed the audience.

C. The performance amazed the audience.

In English, when we use the active voice in a sentence, the subject performs the action that is being described by the verb. This is called "active" because the subject is "acting upon" the verb. On the other hand, passive voice occurs when the subject is no longer "acting," but is instead "being acted upon" by the verb.

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.

i believe that is the truth if thats what you where asking for