SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 18 September 2024, Shift 1 · English Comprehension · Question 20 of 99

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Select the option that expresses the given sentence in active voice. Why are you repeatedly called by her?

(a)Why she calls you repeatedly?
(b)Why had she called you repeatedly?
(c)Why was she calling you repeatedly?
(d)Why does she call you repeatedly?

Answer

Why

Correct — D. The passive verb is are called — present simple passive, are plus the past participle — so the active must also be present simple.

Turn the agent into the subject: by her becomes she. A wh-question in the present simple needs do-support, and a third person singular subject takes does with the bare verb call.

Why + does + she + call + you + repeatedly gives "Why does she call you repeatedly?" → option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Why she calls you repeatedly? — Why she calls you repeatedly has no auxiliary. A direct wh-question needs does she call; this word order belongs to a reported clause, not to a question ending in a question mark.
(b)
Why had she called you repeatedly? — Had called is past perfect. The passive given is present, and changing voice never moves the tense of a sentence.
(c)
Why was she calling you repeatedly? — Was calling is past continuous, which would translate a passive was being called. The sentence says are called.

Concept

Voice change is mechanical once you name the tense. Read the passive auxiliary first: are called is present simple, are being called present continuous, have been called present perfect.

Then swap the roles. The agent in the by-phrase becomes the subject, the passive subject becomes the object, and the verb moves into the matching active tense.

Questions add one step. A present simple or past simple active needs do, does or did in a question, so Why does she call, never Why she calls.

All four options are questions, so the item is decided on two things only: which tense matches are called, and whether the question is built with an auxiliary.

Key facts

The present simple passive is am, is or are plus the past participle, as in are called.
A change of voice keeps the tense of the original sentence.
In a voice change only the subject, the object and the form of the verb move.
A wh-question in the present simple uses do or does with the bare form of the verb.

Study next

Turning By whom questions from passive into activeDo-support in questions and negativesPassive forms of continuous and perfect tenses

Common traps

Choosing a past-tense option because the sentence sounds like a report of something finished.
Keeping statement order, Why she calls you, in a direct question.
Forgetting that her becomes she when the agent turns into the subject.

The reverse task, active into passive, sits at English Q.16 of this sitting.

Interrogative passives turned back into active questions appear at 10 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.18 (By whom was grammar taught to you?) and 17 Sep 2024, 16:00, English Q.2 (By whom were you injured?).

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