English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice

English Grammar
English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice

Change the following from active to passive: Why did the editor overlook the substantial stylistic anomalies?


Options:

  1. Why have the substantial stylistic anomalies been overlooked by the editor?
  2. Why are the substantial stylistic anomalies being overlooked by the editor?
  3. Why did the substantial stylistic anomalies be overlooked by the editor?
  4. Why were the substantial stylistic anomalies overlooked by the editor?

Right Answer: Why were the substantial stylistic anomalies overlooked by the editor?

The active sentence is an interrogative in the simple past, formed with the auxiliary 'did' plus the bare verb 'overlook'. In the passive, the object 'the substantial stylistic anomalies' becomes the subject, and because it is plural the past form of 'be' must be 'were', followed by the past participle 'overlooked'. The question word 'Why' stays at the front. This produces option four. Option one shifts to the present perfect, option two to the present continuous, and option three keeps 'did' alongside 'be', which is ungrammatical. Hence option four is correct.

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