Question

Change the following statement into passive voice.
Will she tell us the truth?
A) Is the truth told to us by her?
B) Will the truth be told to us by her?
C) Will the truth be told to us by her?
D) Will the truth be told to us by her?

Answer 1

Hint: A sentence in the active tense is a sentence in which any form of the main verb can be used. In a passive voice, the sentence would always have the participle form of the main verb. It is an indicator that the sentence in the sentence might be in the passive voice.

Complete answer:
In the statement given in the question, the subject is ‘she’ and the object is ‘the truth’. The verb ‘tell’ is the present tense form. To convert the sentence from the active voice to the passive voice, we must use ‘she’ as the object and ‘the truth’ as the subject. We will also convert the ‘tell’ verb to its participle form i.e. ‘told’.

Now let us look at the the given options:
Option A) Is the truth told to us by her? – In this option, the subject and the object have been interchanged correctly. The verb ‘told’ is also in the participle form. The word ‘is’ tells us that the sentence is in the present tense. But it should have been in the future tense, as intended in the question. Therefore, this option is incorrect.
Option B) The truth will be told to us by her? – This option does not use the interrogatory verb ‘will’. Therefore, this sentence is no longer a question. Using the question mark at its end is incorrect. Also, while changing the sentence from active to passive, we cannot change the tone of the sentence. A question has to remain a question. Thus, this option is incorrect.
Option C) Will the truth be told to us by her? – In this option, the subject and the object have been interchanged correctly, and also the verb ‘told’ is in the participle form. The interrogatory word ‘will’ is used to indicate the future tense, as intended in the question. Therefore, this option is correct.
Option D) Will the truth be told us by her? – This option is very similar to option (C) as all the correct changes have been made. But in this case, the preposition ‘to’ is missing which was supposed to indicate, to whom the truth will be told. Therefore, this option is also incorrect.

Thus, the correct answer is Option (C) Will the truth be told to us by her?

Note: The active and passive voice in English grammar are used to change the focus of the reader or the listener between the subject and the object. In the active sentence, “Will she tell us the truth” our focus is on ‘she’. But when we change the sentence to the passive voice, “will the truth be told to us by her” the truth becomes the focus of the sentence and not the person who is saying it.