Voice - English Aptitude MCQ Questions and Answers

The money was taken from the customer by the accountant.

Given sentence is in Past simple tense and it is in active voice, we need to change it into passive voice.

Rule :
Subject + (was / were) + V³ + Optional Agents.

He was refused admittance by the peon.

Given sentence is in Past simple tense and it is in active voice, we need to change it into passive voice.

Rule :
Subject + (was / were) + V³ + Optional Agents.

The bell has been rung by the boy.

The given sentence is in active voice and it is in Present Perfect Tense.

Rule :
Subject + (has /have) + been + V³ + Other agents.

He was made a king by them.

Given sentence is in Past simple tense and it is in active voice, we need to change it into passive voice.

Rule :
Subject + (was / were) + V³ + Optional Agents.

The given sentence, “Circumstances will oblige me to go.”, is in the Active Voice. Here, “circumstances” is the subject, “will oblige” is the verb, and “me” is the object.

To change it into the Passive Voice, the object “me” becomes the subject. The verb phrase “will oblige” changes to “will be obliged”.

Thus:
Active: Circumstances will oblige me to go.
Passive: I shall be obliged to go by the circumstances.

Why Option B is correct: The meaning and grammatical structure of the original sentence are correctly retained. “Me” becomes “I”, and “will oblige” changes to the passive construction “shall be obliged”.

Why the other options are incorrect:

Option A: Incorrect. It does not change the sentence into the passive voice; it merely rearranges the meaning.

Option C: Incorrect. “I should go” changes the meaning and does not form the passive voice of the given sentence.

Option D: Incorrect. The phrase “obliged by the circumstances to go” is awkward in this construction. The standard passive transformation is “I shall be obliged to go by the circumstances.”

Final Answer: Option B — I shall be obliged to go by the circumstances.

In the original sentence "Don't laugh at me.", the speaker is expressing a desire not to be laughed at. This sentiment is correctly transformed into passive voice as:

Option D: "Let me not be laughed at." - This correctly reflects the passive construction where "me" is the subject and "not be laughed at" is the passive verb phrase indicating the action to be avoided.

Option A: "Let me be laughed at." - This option incorrectly changes the meaning, suggesting the opposite of what the original sentence intends.

Option B: "Let be me not laughed at." - This is grammatically incorrect and does not form a valid passive voice sentence.

Option C: "I am laughed at." - This changes the meaning and structure of the sentence, making it an active voice construction.

Therefore, the correct answer, maintaining the original meaning, is Option D: Let me not be laughed at.

In English grammar, transforming sentences from active voice to passive voice involves changing the structure so that the subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence, and vice versa. The original sentence "Our colleague was given a gift when she retired." is in the passive voice.

Let's analyze each option:

Option A: "Our colleague gave us a gift when she retired." - This is in active voice and changes the meaning of the original sentence.

Option B: "Our colleague was given us a gift when she retired." - This option is grammatically incorrect as it incorrectly places "us" after "given".

Option C: "A gift was given to our colleague when she retired." - This is the correct transformation to passive voice. It correctly states that "a gift" (the object in active voice) is now the subject, and "our colleague" (the subject in active voice) is now the object.

Option D: "We gave our colleague a gift when she retired." - This is in active voice and changes the meaning of the original sentence.

Therefore, the correct answer is Option C: A gift was given to our colleague when she retired.

Active voice: The subject performs the action (e.g., "I threw the ball").
Passive voice: The subject receives the action (e.g., "The ball was thrown by me").

The original sentence, "I don't like people keeping me waiting," is in the active voice. "People" is the subject performing the action of "keeping me waiting".

Option A: "I don’t like people are kept me waiting." This is grammatically incorrect. The verb tense is wrong; it incorrectly uses the continuous tense ("are kept") and doesn't match the meaning of the original sentence.

Option B: "I don’t like people were kept me waiting." This is also grammatically incorrect for the same reason as option A. It uses the past continuous incorrectly.

Option C: "I don’t like being kept waiting." This is the correct answer. It uses the passive voice correctly. The speaker is the one being kept waiting, making "being kept waiting" the object of the dislike.

Option D: "I don’t like people are being kept waiting." This is grammatically incorrect. Similar to options A and B, it uses the continuous tense wrongly and doesn't reflect the meaning of the original sentence. The sentence focuses on the speaker's dislike of the action being done to *them*, not a general observation about people being kept waiting.

Have you ever been bitten by a dog?

The given sentence is a interrogative in active voice and it is in Present Perfect Tense.

Rule :
(has /have) +Subject +been + V³ + Other agents.

He was given a reward by the king.

Given sentence is in Past simple tense and it is in active voice, we need to change it into passive voice.

Rule :
Subject + (was / were) + V³ + Optional Agents.