English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice

English Grammar
English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice

Change the following from active to passive: People can seldom access archived manuscripts without clearance.


Options:

  1. Archived manuscripts can seldom being accessed without clearance.
  2. Archived manuscripts could seldom be accessed without clearance.
  3. Archived manuscripts can seldom be accessed without clearance.
  4. Archived manuscripts are seldom able to be accessed without clearance.

Right Answer: Archived manuscripts can seldom be accessed without clearance.

When an active sentence contains a modal auxiliary such as 'can', the passive is formed by keeping the modal and adding 'be' plus the past participle. Here the object 'archived manuscripts' becomes the subject, and 'can access' becomes 'can be accessed', giving 'Archived manuscripts can seldom be accessed without clearance'. The agent 'people' is indefinite and is normally dropped. Option one wrongly uses 'being' after the modal, option two shifts the tense by replacing 'can' with 'could', and option four rewrites the structure as 'are able to', changing the form. Hence option three is correct.

This question is part of English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice, which has 15 practice questions with answers.

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