Question

Chose the most appropriate passive form for the given sentence:
I will buy the tickets in advance.
A) In advance I will buy tickets.
B) We will buy tickets in advance.
C) The tickets will be bought by me in advance.
D) Buy tickets in advance.

Answer 1

Hint: Let's look at the difference between active and passive voice in order to convert the given question to passive voice.
Speech, mood, tense, person, and number are the five properties of verbs in English grammar; we're only concerned with voice here. The active and passive voices are the two grammatical voices.

Complete answer:
Passive voice -
The passive voice is a grammatical voice construction that can be used in many languages. The grammatical subject expresses the theme or patient of the main verb in a clause with passive voice – that is, the person or thing who undergoes the action or has its state modified.
Active expression, on the other hand, has the subject acting as the negotiator. The subject (the tree) in the passive sentence "The tree was pulled down," for example, denotes the patient rather than the action's agent. The sentences "Someone pulled down the tree" and "The tree is down," on the other hand, are active sentences.
Let's look at the difference between active and passive voice in order to convert the given question to passive voice.
Active: The thief stole my car.
Passive: My car was stolen by the thief.
In the passive voice, the object 'My car' comes first, followed by the subject 'the thief.'

Now let us look into the given sentence:
I will buy the tickets in advance.
'I' is the doer in the specified sentence.
'Will buy' is the verb in the given sentence.
'the tickets' is the receiver of the action in the given sentence (we use 'the' with 'tickets' because it is a determiner).
'in Advance' is the last clause.
The recipient becomes the subject in the passive voice. Following the subject, we position a verb, followed by the action's recipient (object), and any remaining clauses, if any. We also use the preposition 'by' before the object to indicate that the operation was carried out by the object.
Since 'I' is a subjective pronoun that can't be used as an object, we'll use 'me,' an objective pronoun.
Since the active voice sentence is in the simple future tense, we'll use 'will/shall' and 'be' with the verb in the past participle form to form the passive voice sentence in the simple future tense. Therefore, “The tickets will be bought by me in advance”.

Thus, Option C. The tickets will be bought by me in advance is the correct answer.

Note:
- The person or thing responsible for the verb's action is the subject in the active voice.
- In the active voice, all tenses are possible, as are all sentence forms, whether positive, negative, or question.
- The active voice has a stronger, clearer tone than the passive voice, which is more subtle and weak. Here's some sound advice: don't use the passive voice just because it sounds more formal than the active voice.
- In English, the active voice is the "default" voice. Intransitive verbs can only be in the active voice, and transitive verbs are normally in the active voice unless we make them passive intentionally.