What’s the active form of "My jacket was made in Thailand"?

Question

What’s the active form of "My jacket was made in Thailand"?

When we normally change the sentence into active voice, we get:

They made my jacket in Thailand

or so. But I think "made" is a general word. It doesn’t actually qualify for what it was made. So to be particular can I use other verbs instead of "made" in the active voice? Or what are other appropriate ways of transforming this sentence into active voice? Would you please give me similar equivalent form of active voice or other different ways of changing into active voice?

Answer 1

Passive:

My jacket was made in Thailand.

Active:

(Somebody) made my jacket in Thailand.

There is nothing special about “made”, jackets or Thailand here. They all convert between active and passive just fine.

The issue with converting to active voice is that we don’t know who made the jacket. This is one of the main reasons for using passive voice in the first place, after all: we either don’t know, don’t care or don’t want to say who the doer was.