IBA English Composition MCQs

The identity of the arresting authority is obvious or unimportant.
Omitting the agent keeps the passive sentence concise.

The present perfect passive question uses 'have + subject + been + past participle.'
The indefinite agent 'anyone' does not need to be retained.

'Slept' is intransitive and has no direct object to become a passive subject.
Only transitive constructions normally form the passive.

'Have something done' means arranging for another person to perform a service.
The object is followed by the past participle 'repaired.'

'Get someone to do something' expresses persuasion or arrangement.
It requires an object followed by a to-infinitive.

'Make someone do something' takes the bare infinitive in active voice.
Therefore, 'made the students rewrite' is correct.

The passive infinitive is formed with 'to be' plus a past participle.
'Needs to be completed' expresses that the report must receive the action.

A negative adverb placed first triggers auxiliary-subject inversion.
The correct order is 'Never have I seen.'

The passive gerund is formed with 'being' plus a past participle.
It functions as the object of 'dislikes.'

The object 'the proposal' becomes the subject of the passive sentence.
The simple past passive is formed with 'was' plus the past participle.

A reporting passive can use 'subject + be said + perfect infinitive.'
'To have discovered' shows the discovery happened before the reporting.

The agent 'Ayesha' becomes the active subject.
The simple past passive 'was written' changes to the simple past active 'wrote.'