Question

Change the voice of the given sentence-
How much will they pay you?
a)How much are you paid by them?
b)How much are they paying you?
c)How much have they paid you?
d)How much will you be paid?

Answer 1

Hint: Whenever we change a sentence from active voice to passive voice, we follow certain rules:

1)When a sentence in active voice is given in the simple future tense, we write it in the form- Will + be + third form of the verb.

2)We always use the 3rd form or the past participle form of the verb in the passive voice.

3)The position of the subject and object are interchanged.

Complete answer:

In the given question; ‘You’ is the subject and ‘they’ is the object, also we can see the use of an auxiliary verb ‘will’ and main verb ‘pay’, which suggests that the verb is in the simple future tense form. Hence, the given interrogative sentence is in the active voice.
So in order to change the sentence from active to passive voice; first, we need to interchange the positions of the subject and the object. Secondly, we need to change the tense of the verb in the past participle form of the verb.
As given in the hint, we need to follow the above-given rules to convert a sentence from active voice to passive voice.
Let’s look at the given options-
a)How much are you paid by them?- The formation of the given interrogative sentence is inappropriate. Hence, it is an incorrect option.
b)How much are they paying you?- We cannot use the ‘ing’ form of the verb in the passive voice. Hence, it is an incorrect option.
c)How much have they paid you?- We cannot replace ‘will’ with ‘have’, as ‘will’ is used in future tenses and ‘have’ is used in present tenses. Hence, it is an incorrect option.
d)How much will you be paid?- The formation and the tense of the given sentence is accurate. Hence, it is the correct option.
The correct answer is Option ‘d’.

Note: It is not necessary to mention the action of the object in the form ‘by them’. You can express a complete meaning without the action of the object.