Did he buy a car yesterday? The passive form of the sentence is:
Correct answer: A. Was a car bought by him yesterday?
- A. Was a car bought by him yesterday?
- B. Has a car been bought by him yesterday?
- C. Is a car bought by him the other day?
- D. Had a car been bought by him yesterday?
Explanation
The correct answer is Option A: 'Was a car bought by him yesterday?' The original sentence 'Did he buy a car yesterday?' is in the simple past tense. To convert it to passive voice, the object 'a car' is placed at the beginning, followed by the appropriate form of 'to be' in the past tense ('was' for singular nouns), then the past participle of the verb ('bought'), and finally 'by him' to indicate the doer of the action. Options B, C, and D are incorrect as they use different tenses or alter the sentence structure, which changes the intended meaning of the original sentence.
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Active voice presents the doer as the subject, while passive voice presents the receiver of the action and uses an appropriate form of “be” with the past participle. Questions cover tense changes, modal verbs, omitted agents and sentences that cannot be passivized because they lack a suitable object.
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