Transformation of Sentences Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: He has been granted a scholarship by the Principal

Grant takes two objects - a person and a thing - so either can become the passive subject. English strongly prefers the person: he has been granted a scholarship.

The tense is present perfect, so the passive is has been + granted. He has granted a scholarship is still active and reverses who gives and who receives, and a scholarship has granted to him leaves out been altogether.

Answer: B

The present perfect form ‘have/haven’t + verb’ in active voice gets converted into ‘haven’t been + verb’ in passive voice. Also, an indefinite or vague pronoun (such as they, we) which is used in the active voice is avoided in passive. There is no need to put the agent with by. Keeping these conditions in mind, the most appropriate answer is option (b).

Answer: B

Correct answer: Two million deaths are caused annually by cigarette smoking in the industrial states

The active verb causes is a present simple stating a general fact, so the passive must stay present simple: are caused, plural to agree with two million deaths.

The three rejected options all shift the tense - to the present perfect continuous, the present continuous, or the present perfect - and each of those turns a standing statistic into something ongoing or recently completed.

Answer: C

We cannot make ‘me’ ‘us’ on our whims as it would alter the meaning of the sentence, so option (a) is out. The best choice that aptly reflects the conversion of the subject in the active voice to the object of the passive voice is option (b). The other two have trouble in their sentence arrangement and are also incomplete in the meaning when compared to the question sentence

Answer: A

"People speak English "can be transformed into Passive form thus - "English is spoken by the people" So, in Passive form , the sentence stands thus - "English is spoken by the people all over the world. In this type of sentence, we need not use "by the people". For example People call him Mahatma. (Active) He is called Mahatma. (Passive)

Answer: A

The Auxiliary Verb that should be used with you is were and not was. Again, as the given sentence is an Interrogative sentence, in Passive form also, the sentence will be Interrogative, which is in Verb + Subject form. Keeping these two conditions in mind, if we judge the given options.

Answer: B

The given sentence is in Passive form. Here subject is "the shops" and object is "Men, women and children". So, a sentence where "the shops" is used as the object and "men, women and children" is used as the Subject should be chosen as the answer. Here also, we should not miss any information supplied in the original sentence.

Answer: A

The smugglers did not realise that someone was recording their conversation. All the options other than option (a) change the meaning of the original sentence. One of the foremost rules of Active-Passive Voice is that the sense of the statement should not be changed.

Answer: B

Correct answer: By whom were you taught grammar?

Two changes are needed together. The interrogative subject who becomes the agent, and as the object of the preposition by it must take the objective form whom.

Then, because this is a question, the auxiliary has to come before the subject: were you taught, not you were taught. Teach has two objects, and it is the person - you - that becomes the passive subject, leaving grammar in place.

Answer: A

Correct answer: We are reading it

Working back from the passive: is being read is the present continuous passive, so the active must be present continuous too - are reading.

The agent by us becomes the subject we, and the passive subject it returns to the object position. Will read, can read and have to read all replace a description of what is happening now with a prediction, an ability or an obligation.