Question

Change the following statement into passive voice.
             I expected him to give us financial aid.

A. It was expected of him to give us financial aid.
B. Let it be expected that he would give us financial aid.
C. It was expected by me that he will give us financial aid.
D. He may expected to give us financial aid.

Answer 1

Hint: Look for the verb, subject and object in the sentence. In active voice, the subject performs an action defined by the verb and in the passive voice the subject receives the action.
Change the subject to object during passive voice and vice versa..

Complete answer:
Let's carefully take a look at the question.
In this statement (I) is the subject and (expected) is the verb and (him) is the object.
Now let’s change the subject to object i.e (I) becomes (by me) as the subject is preceded by the word “by” when changed to object and the object (him) becomes (he) and the verb (expected) will act upon it.
So eventually the result becomes: It was expected by me that he will give us financial aid.
We have to start the sentence with “It was expected” just so that the meaning does not change.

Option A) It was expected of him to give us financial aid.
       This is an incorrect answer as the original subject “by me” is missing and it becomes ambiguous as to who was the subject.

Option B) Let it be expected that he would give us financial aid.
       This is an incorrect answer as the subject is missing and the sentence has its meaning completely changed from the original statement.

Option C) It was expected by me that he will give us financial aid.
         This is the correct answer as it fulfils all the requirements to be converted to passive voice as it has the subject, verb and object without losing the original meaning of the statement.

Option D) He may expected to give us financial aid.
           This is an incorrect answer as the meaning is completely changed.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note: Active Voice is a type of statement where the subject acts upon its verb and Passive voice is that where the subject is a recipient of the verb’s action.
Mostly when a sentence is changed to passive voice the subject is preceded by the word “by” and the subject changes and a new subject takes its place.
Also while changing the voice, the meaning should not change and the sentence should not sound strange