SSC Selection Post 2025 PYQ — Question 57

Correct Answer

A detailed report on environmental hazards is being prepared by us.

Explanation

Active to Passive Voice Rules To convert a sentence from the active voice to the passive voice, the structural focus shifts from the performer of the action to the receiver of the action.

Step 1 (Identify Elements)

Subject: We

Verb Phrase: are preparing (Present Continuous Tense)

Object: A detailed report on environmental hazards

Step 2 (Object Shift) The complete noun phrase object "A detailed report on environmental hazards" is moved to the front to become the new singular passive subject.

Step 3 (Tense Matching) For a sentence in the Present Continuous Tense, the passive voice construction requires a matching present tense auxiliary verb (is/am/are) + "being" + the past participle form of the main verb (V3). Because the new subject is singular, we use "is being prepared".

Step 4 (Subject Shift) The original subject pronoun "We" shifts to the end of the sentence as an agent object pronoun, preceded by the preposition "by", becoming "by us".

Combining these steps yields the first option as the only structurally precise transformation.

Key Points

Active Structure Subject (We) + are preparing + Object (A detailed report...)

Passive Structure Object (A detailed report...) + is being prepared + by + Agent (us)

Grammatical Role Passive continuous conversion (realigns the sentence focus onto the document undergoing preparation while preserving the ongoing present tense).