Changing to the passive — Aptitude Question
Changing to the passive: Choose the correct passive form of: The chef prepared the meal. Answer and worked solution on CodeKairo.
- Topic: Sentence Correction
- Section: Verbal Ability
- Difficulty: Easy
- Time target: 45 seconds
Question
Choose the correct passive form of: The chef prepared the meal.
Options
- The meal was prepared by the chef.
- The meal is prepared by the chef.
- The meal has prepared by the chef.
- The meal was prepare by the chef.
Show the answer and the worked solution
Correct answer: A. The meal was prepared by the chef.
Worked solution
- The active verb prepared is simple past, so the passive is was + past participle.
- 'The meal was prepared by the chef' is correct.
Answer: The meal was prepared by the chef.
The idea
Keep the tense unchanged when switching voice. Simple past becomes was/were + participle; present becomes is/are + participle.
Shortcut. Passive = 'be' in the original tense + the past participle. Prepared is simple past, so the passive is 'was prepared' — the only option with both the past 'was' and the full participle.
Common trap. "The meal is prepared by the chef." — the passive structure is right but the tense has drifted to the present; the active 'prepared' is past, so the passive needs 'was'.