SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 13 September 2024, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 19 of 98

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Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice. I will be gifted a fancy doll by them the next day.

(a)They will gift me a fancy doll tomorrow.
(b)They gift me a fancy doll the previous day.
(c)They gifted me a fancy doll yesterday.
(d)They are gifting me a fancy doll the next day.

Answer

Why

Correct — A. The given verb is will be gifted — future simple passive, "will be + past participle".

Its active form is will + base verb, so the tense you are looking for is "will gift". Only option (a) has it.

The agent "by them" moves to the front as the subject They; the passive subject "I" moves into object position and becomes me; the retained object "a fancy doll" stays where it is.

They will gift me a fancy doll.

Why the others are wrong

(b)
They gift me a fancy doll the previous day. — "They gift me" is the simple present, and the original event has not happened yet. "The previous day" also points backwards, while the passive sentence points forward.
(c)
They gifted me a fancy doll yesterday. — "They gifted" is the simple past and "yesterday" puts the gift before the moment of speaking. Voice change never moves an action from the future into the past.
(d)
They are gifting me a fancy doll the next day. — "They are gifting" is the present continuous, an action in progress now. The passive auxiliary is "will be", so the active must also be future.

Concept

Changing voice is a mechanical swap once you name the tense.

Find the passive auxiliary, map it to its active form (will be + V3 becomes will + V1), then move the by-agent into the subject slot and the passive subject into the object slot, changing its pronoun form: I becomes me, he becomes him, we becomes us.

"Gift" here takes two objects — me and a fancy doll. The passive has promoted the person; when you reverse it, both objects come back after the verb.

The key's sentence prints "tomorrow" where the given sentence has "the next day". Changing voice does not require changing a time adverb, and no other option corrects the tense, so the choice still turns on will gift.

Key facts

The future simple passive "will be + past participle" maps to the active "will + base verb".
The agent in a "by" phrase becomes the subject of the active sentence.
A pronoun moving out of subject position takes its object form: I becomes me.
A verb with two objects keeps the second one after the verb when the voice is reversed.

Study next

Voice change with double-object verbs: give, gift, offer, teach, sendThe passive of future simple, future perfect and the modal auxiliariesVoice change in questions that open with By whom

Common traps

Matching the option that repeats "the next day" instead of first checking the tense.
Leaving the pronoun as I instead of changing it to me when it moves after the verb.

This shift also runs the reverse direction at English Q.8, which turns "Martha made pancakes yesterday" into the passive.

A double-object sentence is set on 24 Sep 2024, 12:30 at English Q.7, and an interrogative passive on 10 Sep 2024, 09:00 at English Q.18 ("By whom was grammar taught to you?").

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