The company has recruited four hundred engineers who will have to complete an internship for three weeks Which of the following options converts this sentence into passive voice correctly?
- (a)Four hundred engineers have been recruited by the company and an internship of three weeks will have to be completed by them
- (b)Four hundred engineers have been recruited by the company and they will have to complete an internship of three weeks
- (c)The company has been recruited by four hundred engineers and an internship of three week will have to be completed by them
- (d)Four hundred engineers have been recruited by the company. Internship of three weeks will have had to be completed by them
Correct — A. The original has two clauses, so a complete passive conversion must turn both into the passive. 'The company has recruited four hundred engineers' becomes 'Four hundred engineers have been recruited by the company', and 'who will have to complete an internship' becomes 'an internship of three weeks will have to be completed by them'. Option A is the only choice that makes both clauses passive while keeping the tense and the modal 'will have to'.
- (b)Four hundred engineers have been recruited by the company and they will have to complete an internship of three weeks — Converts only the first clause; the second clause stays active ('they will have to complete'), so the sentence is not fully in the passive voice.
- (c)The company has been recruited by four hundred engineers and an internship of three week will have to be completed by them — Reverses the roles, making the company the thing recruited by the engineers, which inverts the original meaning (and misspells 'three week').
- (d)Four hundred engineers have been recruited by the company. Internship of three weeks will have had to be completed by them — Uses the wrong verb form 'will have had to be completed'; the correct passive of 'will have to complete' is 'will have to be completed'.
Passive voice of a two-clause sentence: convert every clause, keep the original tense, and change 'complete' to 'be completed' while retaining the modal 'will have to'.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The passive of 'The teacher will have to check the papers' is —
- (a)The papers will have to be checked by the teacher
- (b)The papers will have been checked by the teacher
- (c)The papers will be checked by the teacher
- (d)The teacher will be checked by the papers
Answer(a) The papers will have to be checked by the teacher — the modal 'will have to' is kept and 'check' becomes 'be checked'.
- practice — not a real PYQ
In a sentence with two clauses, a correct passive conversion must —
- (a)convert both clauses to passive
- (b)convert only the main clause
- (c)keep the object unchanged
- (d)drop the second clause
Answer(a) convert both clauses to passive — leaving one clause active makes the sentence only partly passive.