Active or passive?

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And there, in the garbage she did hate, poor Sarah met an awful fate, that I cannot right now relate because the hour is much too late.

Any help would be appreciated. Although the garbage is introduced before Sarah, I am still confused if to whether the garbage is the active in this sentence as there are so many clauses.

Thank you in advance!
 

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And there, in the garbage she did hate, poor Sarah met an awful fate, that I cannot right now relate because the hour is much too late.

Any help would be appreciated. Although the garbage is introduced before Sarah, I am still confused if to whether the garbage is the active in this sentence as there are so many clauses.

Thank you in advance!
Poor Sarah [subj] met [verb] an awful fate [dir. obj] in the garbage [complement] that she hated [relative clause].

"the garbage" is neither active nor passive. These terms are used for verb structure of a sentence. "in the garbage" is an adverbial complement to "met".
That sentence is in the active voice.
 
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Thanks Raymott!

That certainly makes more sense now by breaking it up.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Cheers :)
 
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