Question

Change the following statement into passive voice.
You surprise me.
A) I am to be surprised.
B) You are surprised.
C) I am surprised by you.
D) He is surprised.

Answer 1

Hint:
-The verb shall be expressed by the subject.
-Passive voice is also used to avoid specifying an action agent.
-The grammatical subject of the clause shall be subject to the action of the verb.


Complete answer:
The Passive voice construction can be understood as a grammatical voice construction that is found in many different languages. In a passive voice clause, the grammatical subject demonstrates the theme or patient of the main verb – that is, the person or thing that goes through the action or has changed its state. This contrasts with the active voice in which the subject plays an agent role. For example, the subject (the tree) denotes the patient rather than the agent of the action in the passive sentence "The tree was pulled down" On the other hand, the phrases such as "Someone pulled down the tree" and "The tree is down" are examples of active sentences.

Following are the given alternatives:
Action in a sentence can be represented in two ways: active and passive. Passive voice always uses the past participle form of the main verb, whatever the tense. Only the auxiliary verb depends on the sentence given in the active voice.

The correct answer is (C) I'm surprised by you. Option C is correct as the subject of the given sentence (you) comes in the place of the object (me) and vice versa. The same tense is used and the help verb 'am' is used in the past participle of the main verb (surprise).

Options A, B,and D are not correct as the object is not mentioned in the sentence, the subject is not in its correct position, and 'he' cannot be used respectively.

Therefore, Option C is the correct answer.

Note:
Different languages use various kinds of grammatical forms in order to indicate passive voice. In some languages, passive voice is indicated by verb conjugation which are specific forms of the verb. Examples of languages that indicate voice through conjugation are Latin, Greek, Swedish etc. The subject of the passive voice at normal cases corresponds to the direct object of the corresponding active-voice formulation, but the English language also permits passive constructions in which the subject corresponds to an indirect object or complement of preposition.