SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 14 September 2025, Shift 3 · English Comprehension · Question 14 of 95

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Convert the sentence provided below from its passive voice structure to an active voice structure: The construction is alleged to have been halted due to environmental violations.

(a)It is alleged that the authorities halted the construction.
(b)Authorities allegedly halted the construction.
(c)The authorities are alleged to have halted the construction.
(d)The violation allegedly halted the construction.

Answer

Why

Correct — C. The sentence has two verbs. The reporting verb is alleged names no one who alleges, and the key keeps it.

The voice change happens in the infinitive:
to have been halted → to have halted
the doer, the authorities → subject of the sentence
the construction → object of halted

Plural authorities takes are alleged → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
It is alleged that the authorities halted the construction. — It is alleged that discards the sentence's own frame. The perfect infinitive to have been halted becomes a new that-clause, so the sentence is rebuilt rather than converted.
(b)
Authorities allegedly halted the construction. — Allegedly is an adverb. It replaces the verb is alleged and drops the perfect infinitive, so this is a paraphrase, not a voice change of the given structure.
(d)
The violation allegedly halted the construction. — The violation was the cause in the original, due to environmental violations, not the doer. Making it the subject changes who halted the work, and allegedly again replaces is alleged.

Concept

Verbs like allege, believe, say and report build a passive frame with an infinitive: X is alleged to have done …, or X is alleged to have been done ….

Here both verbs are passive. The frame is alleged has no stated doer and stays. The inner infinitive to have been halted is the part that turns active, with its doer as the new subject.

The perfect infinitive (to have + past participle) keeps the order of events: the halting came before the allegation.

Every option supplies a doer the original never names, and none keeps due to environmental violations. Option (b) is also good active English, but it trades the verb is alleged for the adverb allegedly, while the key keeps the given frame.

Key facts

Passive frame: X is alleged, believed or said to have been + past participle.
The active form of the infinitive: to have been halted → to have halted.
A perfect infinitive shows an action earlier than the time of the main verb.

Study next

The it-frame: It is alleged that the authorities halted the constructionPresent infinitive against perfect infinitive: is said to be, is said to have beenPassive to active when the original names no doer

Common traps

Choosing (b) because nothing passive is left in it. The key converts the infinitive and keeps is alleged.
Making the violations the doer. Due to marks a cause, and a cause is not the agent of halted.

14 Sep 2025, 12:30, English Q.14 keys the same move: The land is believed to have been acquired illegally by the company → The company is believed to have acquired the land illegally.

At 15 Sep 2025, 09:00, English Q.14 the key instead makes the believer the subject: Authorities believed the accused was hiding in the hills.

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