Change the Active Voice sentence to the Passive Voice sentence.
Who asked you to draw this?
A. By whom were you asked to draw this?
B. By who are you asked to draft this?
C. By who have you been asked to draw this?
D. By who were you asked to draw this?
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A only
Passive voice of a question beginning with "Who":
- Agent (by ...): the doer "Who" becomes "By whom", placed first. After a preposition the object form whom is needed.
- Object becomes subject: the object "you" becomes the subject.
- Tense kept: simple past "asked" becomes was/were + asked. With "you" it is were, and the question order is kept: "were you asked".
- The rest stays the same: "to draw this?"
Example: Who wrote this letter? → By whom was this letter written?
(A) By whom were you asked to draw this? — Correct.
- It follows every step above.
(B) By who are you asked to draft this? — Incorrect.
- "who" should be whom, "are" changes the tense to the present, and "draft" changes the meaning of "draw".
(C) By who have you been asked to draw this? — Incorrect.
- "who" should be whom, and "have been asked" changes the simple past into the present perfect.
(D) By who were you asked to draw this? — Incorrect.
- The tense is right, but after the preposition "by" the pronoun must be whom.
Contrast: whom is the object form, used after a preposition ("By whom"). Who is the subject form ("Who asked you?").