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.
Someone gave her a bull dog.
Answer: B
Correct answer: A bull dog was given to her.
Give takes two objects, and where the indefinite someone is the subject the agent is dropped. Making the thing given the subject - a bull dog was given to her - keeps the sentence natural. The perfect and continuous options change the tense.
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Do you imitate others?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Are others imitated by you ?
The present simple question do you imitate becomes are others imitated. The auxiliary do disappears into the passive are, and the question order is kept because the sentence is still a question.
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Please help me
Answer: C
Correct answer: You are requested to help me
Please help me is an imperative, and the passive of a request is you are requested to + infinitive. The past and perfect options change when the request was made, and the continuous makes it something in progress.
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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 have finished this work by tomorrow
Answer: D
Correct answer: This work will have been finished by tomorrow
The future perfect will have finished becomes will have been finished. By tomorrow marks the deadline and must be kept; dropping by changes the meaning to during tomorrow.
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Darjeeling grows tea.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Tea is grown in Darjeeling
Grows is present simple, so the passive is is grown. The agent Darjeeling is a place, so it appears with in rather than by. Tea grows in Darjeeling is active again, and let the tea be grown turns a statement into a command.
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A lion may be helped even by a little mouse
Answer: B
Correct answer: Even a little mouse may help a lion
Turning the passive active makes the agent the subject: a little mouse may help a lion. Even qualifies a little mouse, so it stays in front of it; moving it before help makes it qualify the helping instead. Can and ought to change the modal.
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One should keep one's promise
Answer: D
Correct answer: A promise should be kept
The indefinite subject one disappears in the passive, and one's promise becomes simply a promise. Keeping one's leaves a possessive with nobody to own it, and by us introduces an agent the original never names.
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We hope that we shall win the match
Answer: C
Correct answer: It is hoped that the match will be won by us
Hope takes a clause, so the passive needs the anticipatory it and a that clause; the inner verb then goes passive too. The option turning the whole thing into the match is hoped to be won loses the clause construction.
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Why do you waste time ?
Answer: A
Correct answer: Why is time wasted by you?
The present simple question why do you waste becomes why is time wasted. The auxiliary do is absorbed into the passive is, and the perfect and continuous options change the tense of a habit.
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