Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice. Dipesh will send Rakesh away to college for certain reasons.
- (a)Rakesh would have been sent away to college for certain reasons by Dipesh.
- (b)Rakesh will be sent away to college for certain reasons by Dipesh.
- (c)Rakesh will have to be sent away to college for certain reasons by Dipesh.
- (d)Rakesh would be sent away to college for certain reasons by Dipesh.
Answer
Why
Correct — B. The active verb is will send — simple future. The passive of will plus the base verb is will be plus the past participle, so will send becomes will be sent.
The object Rakesh moves to the front as the new subject, and the doer Dipesh goes to the end behind by.
Everything else travels unchanged: away to college and for certain reasons stay exactly where they were. Result: Rakesh will be sent away to college for certain reasons by Dipesh.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)Rakesh would have been sent away to college for certain reasons by Dipesh. — would have been sent is the passive of would have sent — a perfect conditional about something that did not in fact happen. The original says will, a plain statement about the future.
- (c)Rakesh will have to be sent away to college for certain reasons by Dipesh. — will have to be sent smuggles in have to, an obligation the active sentence never states. Dipesh intends to send Rakesh; nobody is said to be compelled to.
- (d)Rakesh would be sent away to college for certain reasons by Dipesh. — would be sent shifts will to would, turning a future statement into a conditional or a reported one. A change of voice must leave the tense exactly as it found it.
Concept
Changing voice is a mechanical operation with three moves, and altering the tense is not one of them.
Object becomes subject: Rakesh, the object of send, moves to the front.
Verb becomes be plus past participle, in the original tense: will send is future simple, so will is kept and be sent is built under it — will be sent.
Subject becomes agent: Dipesh goes to the end behind by.
Adverbials such as away to college and for certain reasons are copied across untouched.
Three of the four options are perfectly grammatical English sentences. They are wrong because they say something the active sentence did not — a condition, a completed possibility, an obligation. In a voice-change item the test is faithfulness, not grammaticality.
Key facts
- The passive of the simple future is will be plus the past participle.
- A change of voice never changes the tense of the original sentence.
- Adverbial phrases keep their wording and their place when a sentence is made passive.
Study next
Common traps
- Letting would slip in for will, which turns a future into a conditional
- Adding a modal such as have to that the active sentence never carried
- Rewording or relocating the adverbials while rearranging subject and object
SSC gives you an active sentence and surrounds the key with near-misses that differ by a single auxiliary, so read the auxiliaries before you read the word order.
The same will to will be plus past participle change is asked at 11 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.11 (Ravi will play the match),
at 13 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.8 (The team will announce the winner tomorrow) and at 19 Sep 2024, 16:00, English Q.3 (The school will hire new teachers).
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