Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice. The school will hire new teachers.

Correct — C. The active verb is will hire — simple future. The passive of a simple future is will be + past participle, so hire becomes will be hired.

Work the sentence through in three moves:
the object new teachers becomes the subject;
will hire becomes will be hired;
the old subject the school follows by.

That gives New teachers will be hired by the school. Changing voice must never change the tense, and option (c) is the only one that is both passive and still future.

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  New teachers will join the school. — This is still active, and it swaps the verb: join is not the passive of hire. A voice change may not alter who does what to whom.
• (b)
  New teachers are hired by the school. — The shape is passive but the tense has slipped to simple present, are hired. The active sentence is about the future.
• (d)
  The school will be hiring new teachers. — Will be hiring is future continuous and active — the school is still the doer. The words will be are not enough to make a passive.

Voice change is mechanical once the tense is named.

The object of the active verb moves to subject position, the verb becomes the matching form of be plus the past participle, and the original subject moves into a by-phrase.

The tense mapping to memorise:
simple present, writes, becomes is written;
simple past, wrote, becomes was written;

simple future, will write, becomes will be written;
present perfect, has written, becomes has been written.

Key facts

• The passive of a simple future active, will plus the base verb, is will be plus the past participle.
• A change of voice never changes the tense of the sentence.
• Will be plus an -ing form is future continuous, which is an active construction.
• The doer of the action appears in a by-phrase in the passive, and may be dropped when it is obvious or unimportant.

Common traps

• Accepting are hired because it reads smoothly, and missing that the active sentence is future
• Reading will be hiring as a passive because it contains the words will be

No directly related past PYQ was found.