Select the correct passive form of the given sentence -
Who asked you to drive my car?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → By whom were you asked to drive my car?
Passive of a question beginning with "who":
| Change | Active | Passive | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent (by ...) | Who | By whom | “Who” is the doer, so in the passive it becomes the agent “By whom” (the object form), placed at the start. |
| Tense kept | asked | were ... asked | Be + past participle in the same tense, with question order: simple past “asked” becomes were ... asked, with “were” before the subject. |
| Full sentence | Who asked you to drive my car? | By whom were you asked to drive my car? |
"You" stays "you".
The sentence is still a question, so it ends with a question mark.
Example: Who wrote this letter? → By whom was this letter written?
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: By who you are asked to drive my car ? — Incorrect.
- After the preposition "by", the object form whom is needed, not "who".
- "are asked" changes the past tense to the present.
- The subject comes before the verb, so it is not question order.
Option 2: By whom you were asked to drive my car ? — Incorrect. The tense is right, but the word order is that of a statement: a question needs "were you", not "you were".
Option 3: By whom you were asked to drive my car. — Incorrect. It has statement order and ends with a full stop, so it is no longer a question.