Transformation of Sentences Test 33

It is a question in present tense in direct speech; we have to change it to statement in past tense in reported speech.

The two ways of relating what a person has said are 1)direct and 2)indirect (reported).

In the direct speech, the exact words of the original speaker are repeated.

In the indirect speech (reported speech), the exact meaning of what the speaker told is expressed but not necessarily in the speaker’s exact words.

Option D is correct as the third form of 'need' is used.

Options A,B, and C are wrong as 'do you', 'did he', and 'you' cannot be used respectively.

The correct answer is D)which sort he needed

This is a Question in present tense in direct speech; we have to change it to statement in past tense; 'What can I do' is changed to 'what he could do' 'he' is used here to refer to the king; and since 'you' in direct speech question refers to the magician, it is changed to 'him'.

This is a statement of present perfect tense. It is changed as follows. The indirect object 'him' is changed to subject in passive voice 'he'. The verb 'has given' is changed to 'has been given' and the subject 'She' is changed to object 'her'. So the correct answer is 'He has been given a box by her.'

When a sentence is written, it can either be in active or passive voice. Active voice describes the sentence where the subject (The girls) performs the action stated by the verb (lost). Passive voice describes a sentence where the subject is acted upon by the verb. While changing an active-voice sentence to passive, the subject (The girls) becomes the object, the action is now performed by the new subject (the match), and the simple past (had) is changed to past perfect tense (had been). The resulting sentence in passive is : The match had been lost by the girls, where the subject and object have been replaced with each other and 'by the' has been added, so the meaning of the sentence does not change. Hence the option with the correct sentence is option C. Option A is incorrect because 'have been' is present perfect used when the subject (The match) is plural, whereas the sentence is in the past tense, and the 'match' is singular, so we need to replace 'had' with 'had been'. Option B is incorrect because 'has been' is a present perfect tense whereas the sentence should be in past perfect tense. Option D is incorrect because 'been' is missing after 'had', as the voice of the sentence has changed, the tense changes from simple to perfect tense here.

An action in a sentence can be represented in two ways, namely active and passive voice.

The passive voice always uses the past participle form of the main verb irrespective of any tense. Only the auxiliary verbs depend upon the sentence given in active voice.

The correct answer is D)The DVD recorder has not been repaired.

Option D is correct as the given sentence is in active voice and to transform it into passive voice the subject of the given sentence 
(The mechanic) come in the place of the object and vice versa. Also, as the sentence is in the present perfect tense, 'been' is added.

When a sentence is written it's either in active or passive voice. Active voice describes a sentence where the subject (Somebody) performs an action stated by the verb (built) that affects the object (house). Passive voice describes a sentence where the action is performed 'by the' subject, and the subject has taken the position of the object. While changing a sentence from active to passive voice, the structure changes, the tense remains the same but its form (simple, perfect, continuous) changes, so that the meaning of the sentence does not change. The given sentence is in simple past tense, which when changed to passive voice, 'built' is changed to 'was built'. Hence option D is correct. 'Was' is an auxiliary verb that adds grammatical meaning to express the tense, without which the sentence of the passive voice would be grammatically incorrect, as in "The house built last year", this sentence sounds incomplete in meaning. 'Somebody' is omitted because it is evident in the passive voice that the house was built by some person. Option A is incorrect because the phrase "was being built" is in past continuous tense, and the required form is in simple past tense. Option B is incorrect because in the phrase "was been built", 'been' is always preceded by 'have' or its forms 'has' and 'had', and not by 'was'. Option C is incorrect because 'being' in the phrase "has being" is not preceded by have, has or had, but by 'was'.

An action in a sentence can be represented in two ways, namely active and passive voice.

The passive voice always uses the past participle form of the main verb irrespective of any tense. Only the auxiliary verbs depend upon the sentence given in the active voice.

The correct answer is A)The window is not going to be opened by the teacher.

Option A is correct as the given sentence is in active voice and to transform it into passive voice the subject of the given sentence 
(The teacher) comes in the place of the object and vice versa. Also, as the sentence is in the present continuous tense, 'be' is added.

Options B, C, and D are not correct as the helping verb 'are' cannot be used here as the subject of the transformed sentence is singular, 'be' is missing, and the past participle form of the main verb (open) is not used respectively.

The statement is in past tense; For converting it to passive voice 'The poem' is made the subject; the auxiliary verb following it should be singular since it is a singular subject; so 'learned' is changed to 'was learned' and the doer is introduced by preposition 'by'; so the correct answer is 'The poem was learned by Alex'.

The structure of a sentence in the passive voice is object+ past participle of the verb + subject. If in the active voice the verb 'has' is used, it is changed to 'has been'. In accordance with these rules, option B is the correct answer where 'has' is correctly changed into 'has been', 'book' is the object, 'forgotten' is the past participle of the verb 'forget' and 'Steven' is the subject.