SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 26 September 2024, Shift 1 · English Comprehension · Question 15 of 100

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Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice. Will you give me an independent project?

(a)Would an independent project be given?
(b)Would I be given an independent project?
(c)Will I be given an independent project by you?
(d)Will you be given an independent project by me?

Answer

Why

Correct — C. Give takes two objects here, me and an independent project, so a passive can be built on either. This option builds it on me.

An object pronoun promoted to subject changes form: me becomes I.
The modal is carried across unchanged: will stays will.
The old subject you moves into a by-phrase.

Will + I + be given + an independent project + by you → option (c), and the question mark stays because the sentence is still a question.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Would an independent project be given? — Would is not the passive of will, and this version also drops both the recipient and the agent, so it no longer says who was to be given what.
(b)
Would I be given an independent project? — The subject I is right, but the modal has slipped from will to would. Voice change rewrites the verb phrase, never the tense or the modal.
(d)
Will you be given an independent project by me? — This reverses the roles. In the original you is the giver, so making you the one who is given the project turns the sentence into a different question.

Concept

To passivise a question, keep the auxiliary in front and rebuild what follows: modal + subject + be + past participle + by + agent.

A verb with two objects, such as give, offer, send or teach, has two possible passives. You can start from the person (I will be given a project) or from the thing (A project will be given to me).

The option set tells you which one the examiner wants.

Whichever you build, the tense and the modal are fixed by the active sentence and do not move.

Both possible passives of this sentence are good English. Only the person-first version is offered, so the choice is made for you.

Key facts

A passive question keeps the auxiliary first: Will I be given the project by you?
Object pronouns take subject form when promoted: me becomes I, him becomes he, them becomes they.
Changing voice never changes the tense or the modal of the original sentence.
Ditransitive verbs such as give, offer and teach allow two different passive versions.

Study next

Passive forms of interrogatives, including wh-questionsBoth passives of a double-object verb, and when each is naturalPassives with modals: can, must, should and will

Common traps

Shifting will to would out of the habit picked up from reported speech.
Keeping me as the subject instead of promoting it to I.
Swapping the giver and the receiver in the by-phrase.

The stem gives one active sentence and four passives that differ by a single element, so compare the four against each other rather than translating from scratch.

Voice change also runs at English Q.2 of this 26 Sep 2024, 9:00 am sitting, where Rohit did not slap Kunal takes Kunal was not slapped by Rohit.

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