MCQs Preparation

Change into passive: ‘Who did this’

A. By whom was this done?
B. By who was this done?
C. By whom is this done?
D. By whom this done?

A. By whom was this done?

Active Voice: Who did this?

  • Subject: Who + Verb: did + Object: this

Passive Voice: By whom was this done?

  • Subject: this (Object in active voice becomes the subject)
  • Helping Verb: was (Form of “to be” according to tense)
  • Past Participle: done (Main verb in active voice is changed to past participle)
  • Prepositional Phrase: By whom (Who becomes the object of the preposition “by”)

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Direct/indirect: He said, ‘I shall go as soon as it is possible.’

A. He said that he would go as soon as it was possible
B. He said that he should go as soon as it is possible
C. He told that he would go as soon as it was possible
D. He said that he would go as soon as it is possible

D. He said that he would go as soon as it is possible

Conversion to Indirect Speech:

  • The reporting verb “said” is in the past tense.
  • “Shall go” in direct speech expresses a future intention.
  • When the reporting verb is in the past tense and the direct speech talks about the future, we use “would” + base verb to maintain the future meaning in the indirect speech.
  • “It is possible” remains the same because it’s a state that doesn’t depend on the tense of the reporting verb.

there’s an exception to this rule when dealing with clauses that express:

  • Universal truths
  • Habitual actions
  • States of being

In the sentence “He said, ‘I shall go as soon as it is possible’”, the clause “as soon as it is possible” expresses a universal truth. The possibility itself doesn’t change based on when the reporting happens. So, even though the main verb (“shall go”) is backshifted, the verb in this dependent clause remains in the present tense.

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