In the questions below the sentences have been given in Active/Passive voice. From the given alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the given sentence in Passive/Active voice.
Abha sent me a card.
Answer: B
Correct answer: A card was sent to me by Abha
Sent is past simple, so the passive is was sent. The two future options change the tense, and send is the base form where the participle is needed.
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He will never forget it.
Answer: A
Correct answer: It will never be forgotten by him.
Will forget becomes will never be forgotten, keeping the adverb in place before the participle. The other options replace will with a modal of ability, obligation or possibility, none of which the original expresses.
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Let not his insulting words be minded.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Don’t mind his insulting words.
Let not… be minded is the passive of a negative imperative, so the active is don't mind. His insulting words is the object and must be kept whole; dropping words leaves the adjective with nothing to modify.
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The students have been punished by the teacher for negligence of duty.
Answer: A
Correct answer: The teacher has punished the students for negligence of duty.
The present perfect passive have been punished becomes the active has punished, singular to agree with the new subject the teacher. The past and past perfect options change the tense, and have punished fails to agree.
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The storm has destroyed twelve houses.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Twelve houses have been destroyed by the storm.
The present perfect has destroyed becomes have been destroyed, plural to agree with twelve houses. The past perfect and past simple options change when it happened, and have been stormed turns the agent into the verb.
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She is reading a novel.
Answer: A
Correct answer: A novel is being read by her.
The present continuous is reading becomes is being read. Is read drops the continuous, has been read makes it complete, and was being read shifts it to the past.
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Do you know the health minister?
Answer: C
Correct answer: Is the health minister known to you?
Know takes to rather than by in the passive for the person who knows. The object the health minister becomes the subject, and the tense stays present simple.
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My presence was objected to by them.
Answer: A
Correct answer: They objected to my presence
Object to is a prepositional verb, so in the active the preposition returns before its object. Dropping to, as the second option does, leaves the verb unable to govern my presence.
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The teacher was reading out the questions aloud.
Answer: B
Correct answer: The questions were being read out aloud by the teacher.
The past continuous was reading becomes were being read, plural to agree with the questions. The past perfect options make the reading complete, and out belongs to the phrasal verb read out and must be kept.
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You need to arrange your book shelf properly.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Your book shelf needs to be arranged properly.
Need takes a passive infinitive here: what needs doing is the arranging, and the shelf is what gets arranged. You are needed reverses which part of the sentence is passive.
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