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Difficulty: MediumActive and Passive Voice Transformation

Consider the following active sentence: 'Why did the panel turn down the candidate's application for the scholarship?' Which of the following choices represents its correct passive transformation?

  1. Why was the candidate's application for the scholarship turned down by the panel?Answer
  2. B
    Why was the candidate's application for the scholarship turned off by the panel?
  3. C
    Why were the candidate's application for the scholarship turned down by the panel?
  4. D
    Why had the candidate's application for the scholarship been turned down by the panel?

Answer

Why was the candidate's application for the scholarship turned down by the panel?
The correct choice accurately shifts the direct object 'the candidate's application for the scholarship' into the subject position, utilizes the singular simple past passive verb phrase 'was turned down', and maintains the exact prepositional particle 'down'.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the active sentence structure, tense, and components.
Subject = 'the panel', Verb = 'turn down' (simple past interrogative: 'did turn down'), Direct Object = 'the candidate's application for the scholarship'.
Identifying these components allows for the proper rearrangement into passive voice where the direct object becomes the subject.
2
Promote the object to subject position and select the correct passive verb form matching the original tense and number.
The singular noun 'application' requires the singular simple past auxiliary 'was' combined with the past participle 'turned down'.
Simple past active questions ('did + verb') convert to simple past passive questions ('was/were + past participle').
3
Construct the complete passive question preserving all prepositions and phrasal particles.
'Why was the candidate's application for the scholarship turned down by the panel?'
Phrasal verbs must retain their original particle ('down') and word order in interrogative passive sentences.

Key Concept

Passive transformation of interrogative active sentences with phrasal verbs in the simple past tense
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Active and Passive Voice Transformation

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