SSC CGL 2022 PYQ — Question 23

The correct answer is option 1 i.e. The newly introduced car was sold to the highest bidder by the company.

 

Following steps should be followed to convert the active sentence into its passive form, the following rules need to be followed:

• Identify the subject, verb, and object in the active sentence

• Move the object to the beginning of the sentence to become the subject in the passive voice

• Use the appropriate form of the verb "to be" (is, was, are, were) according to the tense of the active verb. In this case, the active verb "sold" is in the past tense, so we'll use "was" in the passive voice.

• Include the past participle of the active verb (sold) after the form of "to be".

• Add the preposition "by" to indicate the agent (the doer of the action) in the active sentence. In this case, the agent is not specified, so we can omit it or use a generic agent like "by someone" or "by the company".

• The newly introduced car was sold by the company (if specifying the agent)

• If the preposition "to" is used in the active sentence, it can be changed to "by" in the passive voice to maintain the same meaning

Thus, the correct passive form of the given sentence is:

The newly introduced car was sold to the highest bidder by the company.