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.
It is time to ring the bell.
Answer: A
Correct answer: It is time for the bell to be rung
It is time to ring the bell has an active infinitive; its passive counterpart is for the bell to be rung, which introduces the thing acted on with for. For the bell to ring is active again, and to be ring uses the base form where the participle belongs.
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Rain disrupted the last day's play between India and Sri Lanka.
Answer: A
Correct answer: The last day’s play between India and Sri Lanka was disrupted by rain.
The subject of the passive is the last day's play, which is singular, so the verb is was disrupted. The option with were agrees with the two countries instead of with the play.
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A lion may be helped even by a little mouse.
Answer: C
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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He teaches us Grammar.
Answer: A
The sentence is in the present tense, the conversion needs to be in the same. All the options other than option (b) are either in the past tense or the future. Even if the rules of conversion are being followed in them, they are still wrong as they dilute the meaning of the sentence
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Who is creating this mess?
Answer: A
Correct answer: By whom is this mess being created?
Three things must hold at once: the tense stays present continuous, so the passive is is being created; the interrogative subject who becomes the agent by whom; and because it is a question the auxiliary comes before the subject. Only the keyed option does all three.
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Do you imitate others?
Answer: D
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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The teacher punished the boys who had not done their homework.
Answer: D
Correct answer: The boys who had not done their homework were punished by the teacher.
The object becomes the subject, and the relative clause who had not done their homework travels with it - which is why the option separating them makes the teacher the one who did no homework. Punished is past simple, so the passive is were punished.
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You will have finished this work by tomorrow.
Answer: C
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: D
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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I saw him conducting the rehearsal.
Answer: C
Correct answer: He was seen conducting the rehearsal
The object of saw is him, so he becomes the subject of the passive. The participle conducting is untouched. The options beginning I saw are still active, and to conduct replaces an action in progress with a completed one.
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