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.
Open the door.
Answer: D
Correct answer: Let the door be opened.
An imperative goes passive as let + object + be + participle. Must turns a command into an obligation, will into a prediction, and is opened into a statement of fact.
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I did not trust anybody.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Nobody was trusted by me.
The negative moves into the new subject: did not trust anybody becomes nobody was trusted. Keeping anybody with a positive verb reverses the meaning, and the perfect and conditional options change the tense.
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Did he remember the date and time?
Answer: C
Correct answer: Were the date and time remembered by him?
The date and time is a compound subject and takes a plural verb, so the passive is were remembered. The auxiliary did is absorbed into were, and the question order is kept.
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The boys were digging a hole in the ground.
Answer: D
Correct answer: A hole was being dug by the boys in the ground.
The past continuous were digging becomes was being dug, singular to agree with a hole. The perfect options make the digging complete, which the original does not.
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We must now deal with these problems.
Answer: A
Correct answer: These problems must be dealt with by us.
Deal with is a prepositional verb, so with stays attached to the participle. The modal must takes be + participle; must now deal with is still active.
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The audience loudly cheered the leader's speech.
Answer: A
Correct answer: The leader's speech was loudly cheered by the audience.
Cheered is past simple, so the passive is was cheered, and the adverb loudly keeps its place before the participle. The third option changes what was cheered from the speech to the leader.
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Someone is following us.
Answer: B
Correct answer: We are being followed by someone.
The present continuous is following becomes are being followed, plural to agree with we. Are followed drops the continuous, and the past and perfect options move the action out of the present.
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He hasn't slept in his bed.
Answer: A
Correct answer: His bed has not been slept in.
Sleep in is a prepositional verb, so in stays with the participle and is left stranded at the end. The object of that preposition - his bed - becomes the subject, and the present perfect is kept.
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I was recommended another lawyer.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Someone recommended me another lawyer
Turning the passive active needs an agent, and where none is given English supplies the indefinite someone. Recommend takes two objects, so me returns as the indirect one; adding to before another lawyer would change who was recommended to whom.
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Many a person has been saved from the man-eaters by the hunters.
Answer: D
Correct answer: These hunters have saved many a person from the man-eaters
The present perfect passive has been saved becomes the active have saved, plural to agree with hunters. The past, present and future options all move the sentence off the present perfect.
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