English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice

English Grammar
English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice

Change the following from active to passive: Will the authorities enforce the revised ordinance promptly?


Options:

  1. Will the revised ordinance be enforced promptly by the authorities?
  2. Will the revised ordinance being enforced promptly by the authorities?
  3. Will the revised ordinance have been enforced promptly by the authorities?
  4. Will the revised ordinance enforced promptly by the authorities?

Right Answer: Will the revised ordinance be enforced promptly by the authorities?

To convert an active voice interrogative sentence with a modal auxiliary ('will') into passive voice, the structure follows: Modal + Subject(object of active) + be + past participle + by + agent. The active sentence 'Will the authorities enforce the revised ordinance promptly?' has 'the authorities' as the subject and 'the revised ordinance' as the object, which becomes the new subject in passive voice. The correctly formed passive sentence is 'Will the revised ordinance be enforced promptly by the authorities?', using 'be enforced' (base form 'be' + past participle 'enforced') after the modal 'will'. Options 2 and 4 use incorrect verb forms, while option 3 incorrectly adds a perfect aspect not present in the original. The correct answer is option 1.

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