Choose the correct passive voice transformation of the sentence:
The government is to launch an extensive investigation into the alleged financial irregularities.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The sentence 'The government is to launch an extensive investigation into the alleged financial irregularities' uses the 'be + to + verb' structure to indicate a future action or intention.
To transform this into the passive voice, the object of the active sentence ('an extensive investigation') becomes the subject of the passive sentence, followed by 'is to be' and the past participle of the main verb ('launched'). The original subject ('the government') is moved to a phrase introduced by 'by'.