Change the following sentence into Active Voice. "The visitors were shown the new-born by the woman."

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Here's a detailed explanation for why Option 3 is correct and why the others are incorrect:

The original sentence is: "The visitors were shown the new-born by the woman."

This sentence is in the **Passive Voice**. To change it to Active Voice, we need to identify the doer of the action (the agent), the action itself, and the receiver(s) of the action.

*   **Agent (doer of the action):** "the woman" (indicated by "by the woman")
*   **Action:** "showed" (the active form of "were shown")
*   **Tense:** Simple Past (indicated by "were shown")
*   **Direct Object:** "the new-born"
*   **Indirect Object:** "the visitors"

In the active voice, the agent becomes the subject, and the verb is in its active form, followed by the objects.

Let's analyze each option:

**Option 3: "The woman showed the visitors the new-born."**
*   **Subject:** "The woman" (This is the agent from the passive sentence, correctly becoming the subject in the active voice).
*   **Verb:** "showed" (This is the simple past active form of "were shown," maintaining the original tense).
*   **Indirect Object:** "the visitors" (The original subject of the passive sentence becomes the indirect object here).
*   **Direct Object:** "the new-born" (This remains the direct object).
This option correctly transforms the sentence into active voice, maintaining the original meaning and tense. The structure "Subject + Verb + Indirect Object + Direct Object" is a valid way to construct a sentence with a ditransitive verb like "show."

**Why other options are incorrect:**

**Option 1: "The woman has shown the new-born to the visitors,"**
*   **Incorrect Tense:** The original sentence "were shown" is in the simple past tense. This option uses "has shown," which is the present perfect tense. Changing the tense alters the meaning of the sentence, making it an incorrect conversion.

**Option 2: "The new-born was shown to the visitors by the woman."**
*   **Still Passive Voice:** This sentence is still in the passive voice. The structure "was shown... by the woman" clearly indicates that the subject ("the new-born") is receiving the action, not performing it. The goal was to change to active voice, not to rephrase the passive voice.

**Option 4: "The woman might have shown the new-born."**
*   **Missing Information:** This option omits "the visitors," which was a crucial part of the original sentence. The original sentence explicitly states that the new-born was shown *to the visitors*.
*   **Incorrect Tense and Meaning:** "might have shown" introduces a modal verb and a perfect infinitive, implying possibility or speculation in the past, which is a significant departure from the definite past action expressed by "were shown." It also changes the tense from simple past.

Therefore, Option 3 is the only choice that accurately converts the sentence from passive to active voice while preserving the original tense and all necessary information.