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ID#4800 BCS English Preli (49)

Identify the correct passive form, ″People thought that the despot was corrupt. ″
ক) The despot had been thought to be corrupt.
খ) It was thought that the despot was corrupt.
গ) The despot was thought to be corrupt.
ঘ) The despot is thought to be corrupt.

ব্যাখ্যা

When a sentence has a "People thought that..." structure, the passive can be formed in two ways. One is "The despot was thought to be corrupt", and the other is "It was thought that...". However, the former is more idiomatic in English tests.

১. Option (খ) is also grammatically correct, but (গ) is the preferred complex-to-simple passive transformation.
২. Option (ক) is wrong because it uses "had been" instead of "was".
৩. Option (ঘ) uses the present tense "is", which doesn't match the original past tense "thought".

অতিরিক্ত তথ্য: Passive voice is used when the focus is on the person or thing affected by the action.
Resource Details
Exam BCS
Subject English
Chapter 15
Year 49

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