Language Skills | MCQs

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• Active Voice: "I had hoped that they would fix my locker while I was away, but they didn’t."
• Object: my locker
• Subject: they

• The object ("my locker") becomes the subject of the sentence.
• The verb phrase "would fix" changes to "would be fixed" to reflect the passive construction.
• The original subject ("they") is omitted as it is unspecified in the passive voice.

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Active Voice: She was watching a film. (The subject "she" is performing the action)

Passive Voice: A film was being watched by her. (The subject "a film" is receiving the action)

In the passive voice, the focus is on the object (the film) rather than the subject (she).

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The correct Passive Voice sentence is: Democracy is said to be a better form of Government.

This sentence correctly transforms the active voice sentence "People say that democracy is a better form of Government" into passive voice, emphasizing the subject "democracy" rather than the doer "people".

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The sentence is converted into passive voice by making "a strange noise" the subject, and "could be heard" retains the modal verb structure.

This aligns with proper grammar and meaning.

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In passive voice, the subject becomes the receiver of the action.

"The table was set by us" correctly expresses this by focusing on the table as the object of the action.

Passive voice emphasizes the action being done to the subject (the table).

"The table was set by us" shifts the focus from who set the table (us) to the table itself.

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In passive voice, the object "him" becomes the subject, and "saw" changes to "was seen."

The phrase "leaving the house" remains the same.

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A minimal pair consists of two words that differ by only one sound, usually one phoneme, while the rest of the word remains the same.

In "Pin" and "Bin," the only difference is the initial consonant sound (/p/ vs /b/), making them a minimal pair.

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A consonant cluster is a group of two or more consonants at the beginning of a word without any vowels between them.

In "Spring," the cluster "spr" is a consonant cluster.

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A simple sentence contains a single independent clause, as in "The donuts smell and taste fresh."

It has one subject ("the donuts") and two predicates ("smell" and "taste"), but it's still a single, complete thought.