Paper II · Part A — English

Active and Passive Voice

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Concept

In the active voice the subject performs the action; in the passive the subject receives it. Questions ask you to convert a sentence from one voice to the other.

Identify the subject, verb and object, then swap subject and object and adjust the verb.

Key Points & Formulas

Passive structure: object + correct form of 'be' + past participle + by + subject.
Keep the tense of the original verb.
Only transitive verbs (with an object) can be made passive.
Pronoun changes: I→me, he→him, they→them after 'by'.

Worked Example

Q. Change to passive: 'The teacher praised the student.'

Object 'the student' becomes the subject.

Verb 'praised' (past) → 'was praised'.

Passive: 'The student was praised by the teacher.'

Common traps

Reading the prompt too quickly and missing a qualifier.
Memorising the result without checking when it applies.
Skipping units, signs, chronology or the final reasonableness check.

NDA shortcuts

State the governing rule before substituting values.
Eliminate impossible options before doing full calculation.

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4 NDA questions

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Question 1

NDA I 2026

Read the following pairs:

I. Active: They laughed at his warnings and objected to all his proposals.
Passive: His warnings were laughed at and his proposals were objected to.

II. Active: Do not insult the weak.
Passive: You are advised to not insult the weak.

Question 2

NDA II 2025

The company has recruited four hundred engineers who will have to complete an internship for three weeks.

Question 3

NDA II 2025

The king who the people loved built the castle five centuries ago.

Question 4

NDA I 2026

The HR Manager was able to utilize the specific skills of each member of the team assembled for the project.

(Select the word nearest in meaning to utilize.)

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