Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

English

Chapter

Grammar: Active Passive Voice

Question:

Choose the suitable option that expresses the given Active Voice sentence in the Passive Voice.

'Who knows you?'

Options:

To whom are you known?

To whom were you known?

To whom was he known?

To whom is he known?

Correct Answer:

To whom are you known?

Explanation:

The suitable option that expresses the Active Voice sentence "Who knows you?" in the Passive Voice is: To whom are you known?

Here's why:

  • Converting to Passive Voice: To transform an Active Voice sentence to Passive Voice, we need to swap the subject and object, and add the auxiliary verb "be" in the appropriate tense.
  • Original Sentence: In "Who knows you?", the subject is "who" and the object is "you."
  • Passive Voice Transformation: Therefore, in Passive Voice, "you" becomes the subject and "who" becomes the agent introduced by the preposition "by." However, in English, we often replace "by" with "to" before a person in passive sentences. Since the tense of the original sentence is present, we use the present tense of "be" ("are").
  • Correct Option: Hence, the correct Passive Voice form is "To whom are you known?"