SSC Stenographer 2025 PYQ — Question 179

SSC Stenographer - 06 Aug 2025 - Shift 3 • English • Q179

Select the correct passive form of the given sentence.

"We may have misunderstood the instructions." 

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Correct answer: D

Explanation

Active to passive voice transformation:

Active Voice Structure: The original sentence uses a modal perfect construction: Subject (We) + Modal (may) + have + Past Participle (misunderstood) + Object (the instructions).

Passive Voice Conversion: To convert this to the passive voice, the object becomes the subject, and the verb phrase changes to Modal + have + been + Past Participle.

Passive voice: The instructions may have been misunderstood.