Module: | Advanced Structures (Infinitives & Clauses)
Q75: Consider the following statements regarding sentence transformations:
1. The active sentence "The company denied that the system had been hacked" converts to the passive voice as "It was denied by the company that the system had been hacked."
2. The active sentence "The verification process found the candidates had submitted forged documents" converts to the passive voice as "It was found by the verification process that the candidates had submitted forged documents."
3. The active sentence "The management decided to change the working hours" converts to the passive voice as "It was decided by the management to change the working hours."
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
2. The active sentence "The verification process found the candidates had submitted forged documents" converts to the passive voice as "It was found by the verification process that the candidates had submitted forged documents."
3. The active sentence "The management decided to change the working hours" converts to the passive voice as "It was decided by the management to change the working hours."
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
✅ Correct Answer: D
🎯 Quick Answer:
All three statements flawlessly apply the impersonal passive construction to multi-clause sentences.Structural Breakdown: Because the direct object of the main verb is an entire clause, the passive voice utilizes the dummy pronoun "It" as the subject.
The main verb is made passive ("It was denied"), and the trailing clause remains entirely unchanged.
Historical/Related Context: This "It was..." structural bypass is a standard feature in SSC Tier 2 English, as it allows for clean grammatical shifts without creating impossibly clunky subjects (e.g., "That the system had been hacked was denied by the company" is technically correct but stylistically discouraged in objective exams). Causal Reasoning: The statements are perfectly correct because they isolate the voice transformation exclusively to the main clause.
Attempting to also alter the subordinate clauses ("had been hacked" or "had submitted") would result in severe tense violations or grammatical breakdown.