Change the following complex sentences into simple sentences.
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Answer: B
Option (a) and Option (c) are totally out of question as it drastically changes the meaning of the sentence. The sentence being in present continuous form, it needs its verb to be converted into the ‘being’ form for the right transformation (i.e. to passive voice). Hence, option (b) is correct
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They pick the flowers fresh every morning.
Answer: C
None of the options other than option (c) make sense grammatically. Also, the correct transition of simple past would be ‘are picked’. Also, the subject needs to become the object and vice versa. Keeping both these things in mind, the answer is option (c).
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The Principal has granted to him a scholarship.
Answer: B
The present perfect form ‘has + verb’ in active voice gets converted into ‘has been + verb’ in passive voice. Only one option fulfils this criterion
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Why haven't they allowed you to go?
Answer: B
The present perfect form ‘have/haven’t + verb’ in active voice gets converted into ‘haven’t been + verb’ in passive voice. Also, an indefinite or vague pronoun (such as they, we) which is used in the active voice is avoided in passive. There is no need to put the agent with by. Keeping these conditions in mind, the most appropriate answer is option (b).
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Cigarette smoking causes two 1 million deaths annually in the industrial states
Answer: B
The sentence is neither the case of present perfect or present continuous. So, the options containing ‘been’ and ‘being’ are rejected. The case of simple present applies
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Answer: C
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Do not insult him.
Answer: B
Sentences which express request, order, advice, suggestion, prohibition etc., are called imperative sentences. This seems like a prohibition so it’ll be considered an imperative sentence. Its formation will be like ‘Let not+ object + be + past participle’. Only one option satisfies this, so option (a) is correct.
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Who gave you permission to enter?
Answer: A
The Auxiliary Verb that should be used with you is were and not was. Again, as the given sentence is an Interrogative sentence, in Passive form also, the sentence will be Interrogative, which is in Verb + Subject form. Keeping these two conditions in mind, if we judge the given options.
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Before festivals the shops are thronged with men, women and children making various purchases
Answer: B
The given sentence is in Passive form. Here subject is "the shops" and object is "Men, women and children". So, a sentence where "the shops" is used as the object and "men, women and children" is used as the Subject should be chosen as the answer. Here also, we should not miss any information supplied in the original sentence.
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The smugglers did not realise that their conversation was being recorded.
Answer: A
The smugglers did not realise that someone was recording their conversation. All the options other than option (a) change the meaning of the original sentence. One of the foremost rules of Active-Passive Voice is that the sense of the statement should not be changed.
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