Module: | Advanced Structures (Infinitives & Clauses)
Q71: Consider the following statements regarding sentence transformations:
1. The active sentence "People believe that the company will launch the new product before the end of this fiscal year" converts to the passive voice as "It is believed that the new product will be launched by the company before the end of this fiscal year."
2. The active sentence "Historians tell us how this country was divided into three" converts to the passive voice as "We are told by historians how this country was divided into three."
3. The active sentence "Scientists were conducting experiments on the newly discovered species" converts to the passive voice as "Experiments on the newly discovered species were being conducted by scientists."
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
2. The active sentence "Historians tell us how this country was divided into three" converts to the passive voice as "We are told by historians how this country was divided into three."
3. The active sentence "Scientists were conducting experiments on the newly discovered species" converts to the passive voice as "Experiments on the newly discovered species were being conducted by scientists."
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
✅ Correct Answer: D
🎯 Quick Answer:
All three statements demonstrate flawless mastery of highly complex, dual-clause SSC Tier 2 sentence structures.Structural Breakdown: Statement 1 correctly uses "It is believed" to manage the general subject ("People"), then passively converts the subordinate clause ("will be launched"). Statement 2 shifts the indirect object "us" to "We" and accurately passes over the historical clause.
Statement 3 seamlessly carries the massive subject block ("Experiments on the newly discovered species") into the passive continuous structure.
Historical/Related Context: These sentences were extracted directly from the SSC Stenographer 2025 Official Paper (Shift 2) and SSC CGL 2024 Mains, representing the pinnacle of grammatical density tested in modern Indian exams.
Causal Reasoning: The statements are fully correct.
They all succeed in identifying the true object of the active sentence and promoting it without fracturing the complex trailing modifiers or subordinate clauses that define the sentence's deeper meaning.