Module: | Basic Tense Transformations
Q31: Consider the following statements regarding sentence transformations:
1. The active sentence "One should keep one's promises" converts to the passive voice as "Promises should be kept."
2. The active sentence "Circumstances will oblige me to go" converts to the passive voice as "I will obliged to go by circumstances."
3. The active sentence "We have already done the work" converts to the passive voice as "The work has already been done by us."
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
2. The active sentence "Circumstances will oblige me to go" converts to the passive voice as "I will obliged to go by circumstances."
3. The active sentence "We have already done the work" converts to the passive voice as "The work has already been done by us."
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
✅ Correct Answer: C
🎯 Quick Answer:
Statements 1 and 3 are correct transformations of generalized and perfect tense statements. Statement 2 suffers from a missing auxiliary verb.Statement 3 correctly nests the adverb "already" between the auxiliary verbs "has" and "been". Historical/Related Context: The handling of adverbs like "already", "always", and "never" during voice conversions is a common testing point, as students often place them incorrectly at the end of the passive sentence.
Causal Reasoning: Statement 2 is incorrect because it fails to include the mandatory base verb "be" required for future simple passive transformations.
The grammatically sound passive sentence is "I shall be obliged to go by circumstances" (or "I will be obliged...").