An effective way to improve your ability to communicate is to A) be aware of when you are the receiver and when you are the sender.
It is very important to distinguish between these two things so as to achieve a good communication with somebody.
The verb in the sentence "The chef put a chili pepper in the sauce to add flavor" is in the A. Active Voice
It is in the active voice because the subject is the one doing the action.
chef - subject of the sentence
put - verb
Active voice because he, the chef, is the one who actually does the act of putting the chili pepper.
Additional note: Passive voice is used when the subject is being acted-upon or is not directly involve in the action.
Example of passive voice using the above sentence.
The chili pepper is being put in the sauce.
chili pepper - subject
is being put - verb
Clearly, the subject is not actively participating in the performance of the verb.
Answer:
Bell succeeded because he had more financial resources than Meucci.
Explanation:
In the given passage, the narrator talks about how the idea of inventing the telephone came to be. Though two people have the same idea to make a working communicative machine, only one succeeded.
Antonio Meucci was working on his talking telegraph while Alexander Graham Bell was working on the telephone. While both men have the same idea, Meucci's did not work because of financial constraints, which Bell has, in the form of his father-in-law. This enabled Bell to succeed in further developing and eventually bringing forth the telephone.
Thus, the correct answer is the third option.