Question

Change the following assertive sentence to interrogative:
No one can tolerate this.
a) Can anyone tolerate this?
b) Can you tolerate this?
c) You can tolerate this?
d) No change.

Answer 1

Hint: To answer the question, one needs to understand the exact meaning of the sentence and what an equivalent interrogative sentence would be.

Complete step-by-step answer:

Interrogative sentences would have the exact same meaning but would be in the questioning tone. They are often used to lay emphasis on the point of the sentence or when someone wants to indicate the importance of his/her remark. Both sentences deliver the same message but are written differently. The given sentence means that there is no one who can tolerate it.
Option ‘a’, “can anyone tolerate this?” asks if anyone can tolerate it, which is what the sentence is saying, this is a correct structure of the question. Hence, it is the correct option.
Option ‘b’,” can you tolerate this?” points out to a particular person, which is incorrect, and hence it is an incorrect option.
Option ‘c’, “you can tolerate this?” conveys the exact same message as the previous option, for the same reason as the previous option, it is an incorrect option as well.
Option ‘d’, “no change” is incorrect because we already established the correct answer and that there needs to be a change in the format of the statement.
Hence option ‘a’ is the correct answer.

Note: One must be very clear about the context of the sentence, what do the given words mean, and the message they deliver.