Question

Choose the most suitable passive voice conversion of the given sentence.
People will line the road to welcome the Olympic-stars.
A. The Olympic-stars will be lined with the people for welcome.
B. The road will be lined by people to welcome the Olympic-stars.
C. The road will be lined from people to welcome the Olympic-stars.
D. All of the above.

Answer 1

Hint:The most suitable passive voice conversion of the given sentence. The rule chart of the active and passive voice in the case of simple future tense goes as follows: Active voice is in the structure, subject + will + first form of the verb + object and when we convert the sentence into passive voice then the structure is, object + will be (passive form) + third form of the verb + by + subject.

Complete answer:
People will line the road to welcome the Olympic-stars: In the given sentence, people is the subject, line is the first form of the verb followed by the road which is the object. To change the simple future tense into passive voice the structure of the sentence is the object of the sentence followed by the passive form of the verb and then the subject.

Option A: The Olympic-stars will be lined with the people for welcome is an incorrect answer because it doesn’t follow the above structure as ‘the road’ which is the object of the sentence is missing.

Option B: The road will be lined by people to welcome the Olympic-stars is a correct answer because it follows the above structure of the sentence. As ‘the road’ being the object of the sentence, ‘will be lined’ is the passive form of the verb ‘will line’ followed by ‘people’ which is the subject.

Option C: The road will be lined from people to welcome the Olympic-stars is also an incorrect answer because in the passive form we use the preposition ‘by’ if we want to say who or what performs the action. But in the option instead of ‘by’, ‘from’ is used.

Option D: All of the above is an incorrect answer because options A and C are incorrect. Therefore, it cannot be all of the above.

 Hence, the correct answers are Option ‘B’.

Note:Active voice is when an action performed by the subject is expressed by the verb. For example, “I will do my homework”. Passive voice is when the action expressed by the verb is received by the subject. For example, “My homework will be done”. Active voice means that a sentence has a subject that acts upon its verb. Passive voice means that a subject is a recipient of a verb’s action.