SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 18 September 2024, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 10 of 98

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Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice. People will respect his bravado.

(a)His bravado will have to be respected by people.
(b)His bravado will be respect by people.
(c)His bravado will be respected by people.
(d)His bravado will being respected by people.

Answer

Why

Correct — C. The active verb is will respect — simple future — so the passive frame is will + be + past participle.

The object 'his bravado' becomes the subject, 'people' moves into the by-phrase, and 'respect' takes its third form, respected.

That yields 'His bravado will be respected by people' — option (c). No other choice keeps both halves of the frame, the auxiliary and the participle, intact.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
His bravado will have to be respected by people. — Will have to be adds obligation — it says people are compelled to respect him. The active sentence merely predicts, and a voice change may not import a modal the original never carried.
(b)
His bravado will be respect by people. — 'Will be respect' leaves the verb in the base form. After 'be' the passive needs the past participle respected, so this line stops one form short of a verb group.
(d)
His bravado will being respected by people. — Will being is not an English verb form. 'Will' is followed by a bare infinitive, so 'will be' is the only continuation available here.

Concept

Changing voice redistributes the roles and leaves the tense where it was: the active object becomes the passive subject, the verb becomes be + past participle in the same tense, and the active subject moves into a by-phrase.

So simple future active 'will + V1' becomes 'will be + V3'. The tense marker stays on 'will', which means nothing else in the verb group is free to change.

Modality is meaning, not frame. 'Will' cannot quietly become 'will have to' in a rewrite that is supposed to say the same thing.

The four options here differ from one another by a single verb form each, so the item is decided entirely on the shape of the verb group and not on word order.

Key facts

Simple future passive is will be + past participle — 'will be respected', never 'will be respect'.
'Will' takes a bare infinitive, which is why 'will being' cannot occur in any English clause.
The active subject reappears as the agent in a by-phrase, kept here because 'people' is printed in the options.

Study next

Passive with modals: can, may and must followed by be plus past participlePassive of ditransitive verbs, where either object can become the subjectKeeping perfect and continuous aspect intact through a voice change

Common traps

Reading 'will have to be respected' as a stronger phrasing of the same idea rather than a change of meaning
Leaving the main verb in its base form after 'be'

Simple-future voice change recurs across the 2024 CGL papers with a short active sentence and near-miss verb forms — also asked 11 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.11 ('Ravi will play the match') and 18 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.16 ('Dipesh will send Rakesh away to college').

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