SSC CGL 2025 Tier-I · 21 September 2025, Shift 1 · English Comprehension · Question 17 of 99

We transcribed this text from the pictures on a candidate's response sheet for this shift; the answer is the key SSC colour-marked on that sheet. Solution last reviewed 13 September 2026.

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Change the following from active to passive: They will have opened the new airport by 2026.

(a)The new airport will have been opened by 2026.
(b)The new airport will be opened by 2026.
(c)The new airport has been opened by 2026.
(d)The new airport will being opened by 2026.

Answer

Why

Correct — A. The active verb is will have opened, the future perfect.

Future perfect passive = will have been + past participle.
will have opened → will have been opened

The object, the new airport, becomes the subject. The vague agent 'They' is dropped. By 2026 is a time limit, not the agent, so it stays → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

(b)
The new airport will be opened by 2026. — Will be opened is the simple future passive. It drops have, so it loses the sense of completion by a deadline that 'will have opened' carries.
(c)
The new airport has been opened by 2026. — Has been opened is the present perfect passive. It drops will, so the sentence is no longer in the future perfect the active used.
(d)
The new airport will being opened by 2026. — Will being is ungrammatical: a modal such as will is followed by the base form (be), never the -ing form. It also drops have.

Concept

Changing active to passive keeps the tense and changes the voice. The object becomes the subject, and the verb takes a form of be plus the past participle.

Future simple: will open → will be opened
Future continuous: will be opening → will be being opened
Future perfect: will have opened → will have been opened

A vague agent such as they, people or someone is usually dropped in the passive.

Key facts

Future perfect passive: will have been + past participle.
Future continuous passive: will be being + past participle.
A modal (will, shall, can) is followed by the base form be, never being.
By + a time (by 2026) is a deadline, not the agent.

Study next

Passive of every future form: will open, will be opening, will have openedPassive with modals: can be done, must have been done

Common traps

Reading 'by 2026' as the agent and looking for a 'by them' version.
Dropping 'have' and choosing the simple future passive, which loses the completed-by-a-deadline meaning.

The same conversion on other future forms is set at 17 Sep 2025, 16:00, English Q.11 (will give → will be given) and 19 Sep 2025, 16:00, English Q.11 (will be delivering → will be being delivered). The active future perfect is tested at 23 Sep 2024, 16:00, English Q.11 (will have completed).

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