Choose the correct passive voice transformation of the sentence:
People say that she will make a great leader someday.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The original sentence is a complex sentence with a main clause ('People say') and a noun clause ('that she will make a great leader someday') acting as the object of the main verb 'say'.
To transform this into the passive voice, we apply the passive voice rules to the main clause. The object of the main verb, the entire noun clause, becomes the subject of the passive sentence. The verb 'say' becomes 'is said' (present simple tense). The subject 'People' is generally omitted in the passive voice when it is an indefinite or general subject.
The resulting structure is 'It is said that...', where 'It' is a preparatory subject referring to the noun clause. The noun clause itself remains in the active voice as it describes what is being said.
Hence, option (C) is the correct answer.