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Difficulty: HardActive and Passive Voice Transformation

What is the correct passive form of the active sentence: 'How could the presiding magistrate have overlooked such a glaring piece of evidence during the preliminary hearing?'

  1. How could such a glaring piece of evidence have been overlooked by the presiding magistrate during the preliminary hearing?Answer
  2. B
    How could such a glaring piece of evidence had been overlooked by the presiding magistrate during the preliminary hearing?
  3. C
    How could such glaring details of the evidence has been overlooked by the presiding magistrate during the preliminary hearing?
  4. D
    How could such a glaring piece of evidence have been overlooked of by the presiding magistrate during the preliminary hearing?

Answer

How could such a glaring piece of evidence have been overlooked by the presiding magistrate during the preliminary hearing?
The correct passive form preserves the modal perfect structure ('could have been overlooked'), accurately positions the direct object ('such a glaring piece of evidence') as the grammatical subject, and maintains the interrogative clause order.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the active elements in the sentence.
Subject = 'the presiding magistrate', Active verb phrase = 'could have overlooked' (modal perfect), Direct object = 'such a glaring piece of evidence'.
Converting to passive voice requires promoting the direct object of the active clause to the subject position.
2
Transform the active modal perfect verb phrase into its corresponding passive form.
'could have overlooked' becomes 'could have been overlooked'.
The passive form of a modal perfect structure ('modal + have + past participle') requires inserting 'been' between 'have' and the principal verb's past participle.
3
Maintain interrogative sentence structure and express the original subject in a prepositional agent phrase.
The question word 'How' and modal auxiliary 'could' precede the new subject, followed by 'have been overlooked by the presiding magistrate'.
Passive voice transformations must preserve the original sentence's tense, aspect, mood, and word order.

Key Concept

Modal Perfect Passive Transformation in Interrogatives
Estimated Time:1m 30s
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Active and Passive Voice Transformation

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