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Study this table to understand how interrogative sentences are changed into
the passive voice.

Active Voice Passive Voice
Do they watch television Is television watched by them
every evening? every evening?

Who ate my chocolate? By whom was my chocolate eaten?
When will they announce the result of When will the result of the lucky draw be

the lucky draw? announced by them? (It is not necessary to
use ‘by them’.)

Why did your father punish you? Why were you punished by your father?

Did you see the thief? Was the thief seen by you?

Can an anaconda swallow a man? Can a man be swallowed by an anaconda?

Note

• In the active voice, the subject is the doer of the action.
• In the passive voice, the subject is the receiver of the action.
• An interrogative sentence retains its interrogative form when converted into
the passive voice.

E. The following paragraph has not been edited. There is an error in each line.
Identify the error, write it and its correction.

1. Yesterday a UFO is seen in the eastern sky
over Kolkata. i.

2. People are terrified on seeing it and started running
helter-skelter. ii.

3. The UFO is seen hovering over some office
complexes for a while and then taking off towards
the River Ganga. iii.

4. The UFO is spotted by people in launches and boats
on the river and there was a huge hue and cry. iv.

5. Then, it picked up speed and is lost to view. v.

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