Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Grammar: Active Passive Voice

Question:

Select the correct Active/Passive form of the given sentence.

The manager said to his employee, “Get out of my cabin right now.”

Options:

The manager asked his employee to get out of his cabin right now.

The manager ordered his employee to get out of his cabin right then.

The manager asked his employee to get out of my cabin right now.

The manager ordered his employee to get out of his cabin right now.

Correct Answer:

The manager ordered his employee to get out of his cabin right then.

Explanation:

Answer-2, Explanation: Reporting speech has an imperative sentence, hence conjunction ‘to’ will be used. Furthermore, reporting speech is in past tense and therefore, ‘now’ will be replaced by ‘then’ and the pronoun ‘his’ will be used in place of ‘my’.