Question

Read the following instructions for making coffee. Answer the following question using the correct passive voice.
First of all, a cup of milk is poured in a pan and the pan ____26____. One tablespoon coffee powder ___27___ with the required quantity of sugar. When milk starts boiling ___28___ into the cup. The coffee and sugar ___29___ and ___30___ very hot.
Fill in blank 26:
A) Is kept on fire
B) Was kept on fire
C) Was to be kept on fire
D) Keeps on fire

Answer 1

Hint: Passive voice means that a subject is a recipient of a verb’s action and active voice means that a sentence has a subject that acts upon its verb. For example: Anita was driven to the theatre by Amit.

Complete answer:
Option A) Is kept on fire – is the correct answer because ‘is kept on fire’ is the best fit in the blank because we have to give answer in the passive voice and this is the correct choice ‘First of all, a cup of milk is poured in a pan and the pan is kept on fire’. Thus, this is the correct answer.

Option B) Was kept on fire – is an incorrect answer because ‘was kept on fire’ shows the past tense. However, here in the process of making coffee is in the present tense. So, use of was and kept is grammatically incorrect.

Option C) Was to be kept on fire – is an incorrect answer because ‘was to be kept on fire’ is in past tense and however, this does fit in the blank correctly and makes the sentence grammatically incorrect. So, this is an incorrect answer.

Option D) Keeps on fire – is an incorrect answer because ‘keeps on fire’ means the pan has to be keep on fire often. And this makes the sentence grammatically incorrect and makes the sentence illogical. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.

Hence the correct answer is option ‘A’.

Note: In this particular question, we have to use the passive voice and the rule of passive voice is the place of subject and object will be interchanged in the sentence and only 3rd form of the verb or the past participle will be used as main verb in passive voice.