English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice

English Grammar
English Grammar - Active Voice and Passive Voice

Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice : He wants someone to take photographs.


Options:

  1. He wants photographs to be taken.
  2. Photographs were to be taken by someone.
  3. He wanted someone to take photographs.
  4. Photographs are to be taken by him.

Right Answer: He wants photographs to be taken.

The main verb ‘wants’ stays in the active voice because its subject ‘He’ is unchanged; it is the subordinate infinitive that is turned into the passive. ‘Someone to take photographs’ becomes ‘photographs to be taken’, and the vague agent ‘someone’ is dropped, since in the passive an indefinite agent is normally omitted. The result is ‘He wants photographs to be taken.’ Option two wrongly shifts the tense to the past, option three is simply the active sentence in the past tense, and option four wrongly makes ‘him’ the agent of the taking.

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

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