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.
Who can question Gandhi’s integrity ?
Answer: B
The places of subject and object in sentence are inter-changed in passive voice. Also, as the given sentence is an Interrogative sentence, in Passive form also, the sentence will be Interrogative. The two options that follow these are option (a) and option (b). However, because of proper sentence arrangement, option (a) would be chosen as the answer.
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I take exercise daily.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Exercise is taken daily by me.
Exercise here is uncountable and takes a singular verb, so the passive is is taken. Daily marks it as a habit, which the continuous option contradicts.
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This surface feels smooth.
Answer: C
Correct answer: This surface is smooth when it is felt.
Feels smooth is the middle voice: the surface is not doing the feeling, and it is not being felt in the sentence either - it simply is smooth to the touch. The passive therefore has to unpack the sense into two clauses. Is felt smooth would mean somebody feels it and finds it so, which is not what the original says.
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The boy laughed at the beggar.
Answer: D
Correct answer: The beggar was laughed at by the boy
Laugh at is a prepositional verb, so at must stay with the participle; the two options dropping it leave the verb unable to reach its object. The past simple gives was laughed at, not the continuous.
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The main skills we seek to develop include analysing, interpreting and evaluating ideas.
Answer: B
Correct answer: The main skills sought to be developed by us include analysing, interpreting and evaluating ideas.
Only the relative clause goes passive: we seek to develop becomes sought to be developed by us, with both verbs converted. The main verb include stays active, since the skills are the ones doing the including.
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She will invite me.
Answer: A
Correct answer: I shall be invited by her.
The future will invite becomes the passive shall be invited, with shall taking the first person subject. Will invited and will been invited put the wrong form after the modal.
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I know him
Answer: D
Correct answer: He is known to me
Know is one of the verbs whose passive takes to rather than by for the person who knows. The tense stays present simple, so was and has been are both wrong.
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You will praise her very much
Answer: B
Correct answer: She will be praised very much by you
The future will praise becomes will be praised. Will praised omits be, and will being and will been are not verb forms.
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Let me do this
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
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They drew a circle in the morning
Answer: B
Correct answer: A circle was drawn by them in the morning
Drew is past simple, so the passive is was drawn. The continuous option makes the drawing ongoing, and the perfect options tie it to the present, which in the morning rules out.
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