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The correct answer is choice (B). Choice (A) is grammatically incorrect as it mentions ‘by who was you’. The use of ‘was’ after ‘you’ makes the sentence incorrect and it should be replaced with ‘by who were you’. The formation of the sentence in choice (C) is incorrect as it mentions ‘money to you’. It can be corrected to ‘who gave you the money’, but that would change the sentence into passive voice. Choice (D) is logically flawed as it says that someone got the money from you, yet asks who gave the money.

The correct answer is choice (A). The question sentence is in the past perfect tense. Choice (A) is also in the past perfect tense. Choice (B) is in the simple present tense, which makes it incorrect. Choice (C) is in the present continuous tense, hence incorrect. The use of ‘will have’ in choice (D) makes choice (D) grammatically incorrect.

The correct answer is choice (A). The subject and the object have been changed. The sentence is in the simple present tense. Choice (B) is incorrect as it places the sentence in the present continuous tense, which makes it incorrect. The meaning of the sentence has been altered in choice (C). The word ‘most’ has been used for days and not for the ‘assignments’. This makes choice (C) incorrect. Choice (D) is incorrect as it uses a present continuous tense.

The correct answer is choice (A). In choice (B), the tense of the sentence is incorrect. In choice (C) the meaning of the sentence is altered indicating that everyday at that hour the plants are watered. This makes the sentence incorrect. In choice (D) the sentence implies a compulsion and does not actually show a change in the active passive voice.

The correct answer is choice (B). The question statement is in the same past tense and hence the answer should also be in the simple past tense. In choice (A) the subject and object haven’t been changed. Also, ‘could’ from the question cannot be changed to ‘would’. These reasons make choice (A) incorrect. Choice (C) also sees no change in the subject and object. The ‘paper of Rajesh’, in choice (D), is grammatically incorrect.

The correct answer is choice (B). The question sentence is in the simple present and hence the answer should also be in the simple present tense. In choice (A) the continuous tense is used which makes it an incorrect choice. ‘Were’ in choice (C) is in the past tense, making it an incorrect choice. ‘Have been’ in (D) is present perfect tense, which makes the choice incorrect.

Option (B) is the right passive voice form of the active voice.

The active voice is rightly turned into the passive voice in option (A). Other options aren’t right.

The statement is in the passive voice and its active voice form is in option (D). Other options violate the rules of grammar.

The right answer under the given options is(D)

The active voice is turned into its passive in option (B) Wrong auxiliaries are used in other options.

The active voice is an interrogative sentence and so should the passive voice sentence be. There are question marks at the end of the sentences. The right passive option is (B). Other options do not follow all the rules of the switch.

The active voice is correctly turned into its passive voice form in option (B). Other options break the rules of the game.

The statement is in the active voice and its passive counterpart is option (B). Options (A), (C) and (D) deviate from grammar and the rules of transformation.

The statement is in the active voice and the right passive voice is given in option (D). Other options break the rules of grammar.

The statement is in the active voice and the correct passive voice is in option (A). All the rules of the transformation from active to passive are kept.

The first statement is in the passive voice and its active voice is option (A). All the rules of the switch from passive to active are kept.

The question in the active voice is rightly turned into a question in the passive in (A). Other options (B) to (D) break the rules of grammar. The correct option is (A).

In the last sentence the parents given their reason for recommending “Pride and Prejudice”. They say there is a strong moral consideration/content in the action by one of the characters of the novel. The right word is (D) “consideration.” Since the parents wanted stories and other content with high moral qualities, they recommended these two English classics, namely “The Christmas Carol” and Pride and Prejudice”.

The choice of Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice” was unexpected because there is romance in it which will attract youngsters, not children. But the parents had other reason for recommending this novel. The right choice is (B) “attract”.

Another adjective is © “unexpected” which can modify the noun “choice”. This adjective is a predicative adjective because it is placed far away from and after the noun it qualities.

The next adjective should quality the noun “read” and only (D) “credible” can do the job well. So the correct word is (D) “credible”.

An adjective descriptive of Scrooge fits the blank. Of the four choices, © “stingy” fits the blank the most. “Stingy” means “being unwilling to spend money; being miserly.” Scrroge in fact was stingy in the play initially. 

Most of the two thousand parents who were interviewed in the survey recommended “The Christmas Carol” which their children should read without fail. The parents approved of the moral content of the play and perhaps they wanted the children to imbibe it. The apt word for this blank is (D) “recommended”.

The survey conducted led to the revelations that parents wanted their children to rad books with high moral content. That is, stories and other contents of the books they read should have strong morality, ethics and may be principles to shape the conduct and future of their children. So the apt word for the third blank is (D) "content." "Content" is what is contained in something such as a story, a book, poem, package, etc.

Surveys have a purpose: to unearth something, to investigate something, to study something in depth; examine or understand something or to start or do research, etc. The survey that was conducted succeeded in revealing something which remained unknown or unheard of untill the revelations were brought out. The apt word for the second blank is (B) "revealed." So the survey has revealed something.

The right word to collocate with the noun "survey" is (D) "conducted". None of the other verbs can collocate with the noun. Surveys are conducted and they can be online, face-to-face, through questionnaires, through long interviews, etc.

The right word to fit the blank is (C) “comfortable”. The last sentence has brought home the truth of generational gap. The meaning of “comfortable” is confident and not worried or afraid”.

In this blank and sentence the author is dealing with the status of the youngsters’ ability to handle hardware and software. New hardware and software packages are designed and marketed all the time. The consequence is that over time the youngsters’ ability will fade or decrease and their children will become adapt at handling them. The correct word is (C) “decrease”.