Test: Type I (Active Voice and Passive Voice) - Banking Exams MCQ

This sentence is in the active voice, with the subject "someone" performing the action of making the necessary arrangements. To convert it to the passive voice, the object of the verb (the necessary arrangements) becomes the subject of the sentence, and the verb is changed to its past participle form (been made). The preposition "by" is added to indicate who performed the action.

Option (c) correctly expresses the sentence in the passive voice. Option (a) and (b) are incorrect because they use incorrect word order, and option (d) is in the active voice, with the subject "one" performing the action.

Since the active voice uses the present continuous tense, we need to use the same tense in the passive voice ('is being written').

The passive voice uses the past simple tense, so we need to use the same tense in the active voice ('watered').

The original sentence is already in the passive voice, with "he" as the subject receiving the action of being obliged to resign. To convert it to the active voice, we would need to identify who or what caused him to resign, but none of the options do so.

Option 1 suggests that someone else made him resign, which is a different meaning than the original sentence. Option 2 suggests that resigning was his own obligation, which also changes the meaning. Option 4 suggests that the act of resigning itself obliged him, which is nonsensical.

Option 3 correctly conveys the meaning of the original sentence, explaining that circumstances led to his resignation.

• The 'voice' of a verb tells us whether the subject of the sentence performs or receives the action.
•  The given sentence is in the passive voice.
• While changing a sentence from passive voice to active voice, the object and subject are interchanged with each other, i.e. object of the passive sentence becomes the subject of the active sentence and vice versa. Their cases also change accordingly.
• Here, 'Vikash Ranjan' is the subject, 'was elected' and 'the people' is the object.
• The given sentence follows the following sentence format and will convert as it has been given next:
• Passive voice: Subject + was/were (*depending on the subject) + past participle (+ by object).
• Active voice: Subject (*object of the passive sentence) + simple past verb + object (*subject of the passive sentence).
• For example, 'The vase was broken by his son.' ⇒ 'His son broke the vase.'
• So, the given sentence in active is as follows: 'By that time, the people elected Vikash Ranjan Mayor of the city for three times.'

Hence, the correct answer is Option 3.

The active voice uses the past simple tense, so we need to use the same tense in the passive voice ('was prepared').

The passive voice uses the future simple tense, so we need to use the same tense in the active voice ('will send').

In the active voice, the subject performs the action. In this sentence, the subject (boy) is performing the action (threw).

In the passive voice, the subject receives the action. In this sentence, the mouse is receiving the action (was chased) from the subject (cat).

In the passive voice, the subject receives the action. In this sentence, the lesson is receiving the action (was explained) from the subject (teacher).