Module: | Advanced Structures (Infinitives & Clauses)
Q84: Consider the following statements regarding sentence transformations:
1. The active sentence "What had they done to ensure the project's success before the official launch?" converts to the passive voice as "What had been done by them to ensure the project's success before the official launch?"
2. 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."
3. The active sentence "The student read a book in just two days" converts to the passive voice as "A book was being read by the student in just two days."
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
2. 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."
3. The active sentence "The student read a book in just two days" converts to the passive voice as "A book was being read by the student in just two days."
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
✅ Correct Answer: B
🎯 Quick Answer:
Statements 1 and 2 accurately convert past perfect interrogatives and complex belief clauses. Statement 3 uses an incorrect continuous tense auxiliary.Structural Breakdown: Statement 1 treats "What" as the subject and smoothly applies the past perfect passive ("had been done"). Statement 2 flawlessly utilizes the impersonal passive for the main clause while passively conjugating the subordinate future clause.
Historical/Related Context: The verb "read" is a classic exam trap because its spelling remains identical across present, past, and past participle forms.
Candidates must use context clues ("in just two days") to determine its tense.
Causal Reasoning: Statement 3 is incorrect because the active sentence "The student read a book" is in the Simple Past tense.
The proposed passive conversion ("was being read") belongs to the Past Continuous tense.
The correct simple past passive conversion is "A book was read by the student in just two days."