Change the following from active to passive: They had sent the invitations by courier.
- A.The invitations were sent by courier.
- B.The invitations have been sent by courier.
- C.The invitations had been sent by courier.
- D.The invitations had been being sent by courier.
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Answer: C
Convert the sentence provided below from its passive voice structure to an active voice structure: The machinery was known to have been operated manually during the testing phase.
- A.Manual operators were known to test the machinery.
- B.Someone was known to operate the machinery manually during testing.
- C.It was known that the machinery had been manually tested.
- D.It is known that someone manually operated the machinery during testing.
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Answer: D
A sentence is provided in indirect speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding direct speech. The envoy reported that the negotiations were languishing because neither party would concede procedural precedence.
- A.The envoy reported, "The negotiations languish because neither party would concede procedural precedence."
- B.The envoy said, "The negotiations are languishing because neither party will be conceding procedural precedence."
- C.The envoy said, "The negotiations are languishing because neither party will concede procedural precedence."
- D.The envoy said, "Negotiations languished, no party conceding precedence."
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Answer: C
A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech. She said, "I was very tired yesterday."
- A.She said she had been very tired the day before.
- B.She said she was very tired yesterday.
- C.She said she had been very tired yesterday.
- D.She said she is very tired the day before.
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Answer: A
Change the following from active to passive: Someone had left the emergency exit unlocked overnight.
- A.The emergency exit had been left unlocked overnight.
- B.The emergency exit was being left unlocked overnight.
- C.The emergency exit had to be left unlocked overnight.
- D.The emergency exit has been left unlocked overnight.
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Answer: A
Convert the sentence provided below from its passive voice structure to an active voice structure: It had been made clear by the committee that the rule would not be altered.
- A.The committee made it clear that the rule would not be altered.
- B.The rule was made clear not to be altered by the committee.
- C.The rule alteration was clarified by the committee.
- D.The committee had altered the rule as made clear.
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Answer: A
A sentence is provided in indirect speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding direct speech. The director noted that the figures had been inflated.
- A.The director said, "These figures have been inflated."
- B.The director said, "The figures are inflated."
- C.The director said, "The figures were exaggerated."
- D.The director said, "They inflated the figures."
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Answer: A
A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech. The teacher said, "Who can solve this question?"
- A.The teacher asked who could solve that question.
- B.The teacher asked who can solve that question.
- C.The teacher said who could solve this question.
- D.The teacher asked to solve that question.
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Answer: A
Change the following from active to passive: The tourists had taken many photographs.
- A.Many photographs have been taken by the tourists.
- B.Many photographs are taken by the tourists.
- C.Many photographs had been taken by the tourists.
- D.Many photographs were being taken by the tourists.
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Answer: C
Convert the sentence provided below from its passive voice structure to an active voice structure: The investigation was believed to have been compromised by internal leaks.
- A.The investigation compromised internal leaks, as believed.
- B.It was believed that internal leaks had compromised the investigation.
- C.Someone believed the investigation was compromising leaks.
- D.Internal leaks are believed to compromise the investigation.
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Answer: B
Select the correct option for the Direct Speech conversion of the sentence below. He asserted that the cryptographic protocol might have resisted the attack had entropy been truly random.
- A.He asserted, "Had entropy been truly random, the cryptographic protocol might have resisted the attack."
- B.He said, "If entropy is truly random, protocol might resist attack."
- C.He asserted, "If entropy had been random, protocol might resist attack."
- D.He said, "Entropy random, protocol resists attack."
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Answer: A
A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech. He asked, "Did you complete the homework?"
- A.He asked whether I completed the homework.
- B.He asked if I had completed the homework.
- C.He asked did I completed the homework.
- D.He asked that I had completed the homework.
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Answer: B
Change the following from active to passive: Has anyone ever challenged this constitutional clause?
- A.Has this constitutional clause ever challenged?
- B.Has this constitutional clause ever been challenged?
- C.Has this constitutional clause ever be challenged?
- D.Has this constitutional clause ever had been challenged?
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Answer: B
Convert the sentence provided below from its passive voice structure to an active voice structure: Not a single tree has been cut in this area by the workers so far.
- A.The workers did not cut a single tree in this area so far.
- B.The workers had not cut any tree in this area so far.
- C.The workers have not cut a single tree in this area so far.
- D.No workers were cutting trees in this area so far.
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Answer: C
A sentence is provided in indirect speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding direct speech. She said that the seminar had been postponed indefinitely.
- A.She said, "The seminar has been postponed indefinitely."
- B.She said, "The seminar is postponed."
- C.She said, "The seminar was postponed indefinitely."
- D.She said, "The seminar had been postponed indefinitely."
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Answer: D
A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech. She said to me, "Have you completed the assignment?"
- A.She asked me if I completed the assignment.
- B.She asked me whether I have completed the assignment.
- C.She asked me whether I had completed the assignment.
- D.She said me had I completed the assignment.
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Answer: C
Change the following from active to passive: They may have been undervaluing the intellectual property portfolio.
- A.The intellectual property portfolio may have be being undervalued.
- B.The intellectual property portfolio may have undervalued.
- C.The intellectual property portfolio may have been being undervalued.
- D.The intellectual property portfolio may have had been been undervalued.
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Answer: C
Convert the sentence provided below from its passive voice structure to an active voice structure: The claim that the system had been tampered with was dismissed as baseless.
- A.The system tampered the claim, which was dismissed.
- B.The dismissal of the system tampering was claimed.
- C.It was dismissed as baseless that the system was tampered with.
- D.Authorities dismissed the claim that someone had tampered with the system.
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Answer: D
Select the correct option for the Direct Speech conversion of the sentence below. The physicist remarked that time-reversal invariance could be violated under non-unitary evolution.
- A.The physicist said, "Time-reversal invariance can be violated under non-unitary evolution."
- B.He remarked, "If evolution is non-unitary, time-reversal invariance will be violated."
- C.The physicist said, "Time-reversal invariance could be violated under non-unitary evolution."
- D.He said, "Time reversal violates when evolution non-unitary."
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Answer: C
A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech. He said to her, "Do you know the answer?"
- A.He asked her did she know the answer.
- B.He asked her whether she knows the answer.
- C.He asked her whether she knew the answer.
- D.He said her that she knew the answer.
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Answer: C
Change the following from active to passive: Does the statute bind municipal councils to such obligations?
- A.Have municipal councils been bound by the statute to such obligations?
- B.Were municipal councils being bound by the statute to such obligations?
- C.Are municipal councils bound by the statute to such obligations?
- D.Do municipal councils are bound by the statute to such obligations?
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Answer: C
Convert the sentence provided below from its passive voice structure to an active voice structure: The guests were being served refreshments by the host.
- A.The host has served refreshments to the guests.
- B.The host serves refreshments to the guests.
- C.The host had been serving refreshments to the guests.
- D.The host was serving refreshments to the guests.
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Answer: D
A sentence is provided in indirect speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding direct speech. The historian observed that the records had been tampered with.
- A.The historian said, "Someone tampered with the records."
- B.The historian said, "The records had been tampered with."
- C.He said, "The records are tampered with."
- D.He observed, "The records are fake."
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Answer: B
A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech. I said, “Let us start early.”
- A.I said let us start early.
- B.I told that we must start early.
- C.I suggested that we should start early.
- D.I suggested us to start early.
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Answer: C
Change the following from active to passive: They had not been considering alternative scenarios sufficiently.
- A.Alternative scenarios had not had been considered sufficiently.
- B.Alternative scenarios were not being considered sufficiently.
- C.Alternative scenarios had not considered sufficiently.
- D.Alternative scenarios had not been being considered sufficiently.
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Answer: D
