NDA (II) 2025 General Ability Test · Question 9 of 147

Correct — A. The main clause 'the king built the castle' becomes 'the castle was built ... by the king', and the relative clause 'who the people loved' becomes passive as 'who was loved by the people'. Option A converts both clauses correctly and keeps the meaning intact.

• (b)The castle was built five centuries ago by the king who loved the people — Leaves the relative clause active ('who loved the people'), reversing who loved whom.
• (c)The castle built five centuries ago by the king loved by the people — Drops the auxiliary 'was' ('The castle built...'), so it is not a complete passive sentence.
• (d)The castle was built five centuries ago by the people who were loved by the king — Swaps the roles — it says the people built the castle and the king loved them, reversing the original meaning.

Active-to-passive with an embedded relative clause: convert both the main clause (king built castle → castle was built by the king) and the relative clause (people loved the king → king who was loved by the people).

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The passive of 'The teacher whom everyone respected wrote the book' is —

  • (a)The book was written by the teacher who was respected by everyone
  • (b)The book was written by the teacher who respected everyone
  • (c)The book wrote the teacher respected by everyone
  • (d)Everyone was respected by the teacher who wrote the book

  Answer(a) The book was written by the teacher who was respected by everyone — both clauses passive, roles preserved.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  When turning a sentence that contains a relative clause into the passive, you should —

  • (a)leave the relative clause unchanged always
  • (b)convert both the main and relative clause without reversing their meaning
  • (c)delete the relative clause
  • (d)swap the subject and object roles

  Answer(b) convert both the main and relative clause without reversing their meaning.