Question

Convert the following to passive voice:
They asked me some difficult questions at the interview.
A. Some difficult questions at the interview they asked me.
B. They asked me at the interview some difficult questions.
C. I was asked some difficult questions at the interview by them.
D. I am asked some difficult questions at the interview by them.

Answer 1

Hint:A passive voice construction is a grammatical voice construction that is found in many languages. in this the subject undergoes change according to the action represented by the verb.

Complete answer:
The given sentence is in the active voice where the subject is ‘they' and the action is 'asked' against the object that is 'some difficult questions'.
during the conversion that occurs during passive voice, the subject replaces the object and vice versa and as the subject now gets the job of object ‘by’ is introduced in the conversion. The verb also changes from active to passive.

'Subject (They) + verb (asked) + indirect object (me) + direct object (some difficult questions) + adverbial (at the interview)' changes to:
'New subject (I) + verb (was asked) + direct object (some difficult questions) + by + new object (them)'
This can be seen in option C, hence it's the right answer.

Option A is still in active voice.
Option B: Similarly, here too these words still remain the same. When the voice changes, the subject (they) and object (me) will interchange, and the word 'asked' will be changed to 'was asked by'. This is not done in this option.
Option D: 'Am asked' expresses perfect tense whereas the given sentence is in simple past tense.
Hence options A, B and D are incorrect.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘C’.

Note:An active sentence when changed to a passive sentence conveys the same meaning. The only difference is that the object in an active sentence is repositioned to become the subject in a passive sentence, and the subject in the active sentence becomes the object while changing to passive sentence.