Question

Change the following sentence into passive voice:
They will meet Doris at the station.
A) Doris will met by them at the station.
B) Doris will be met by them at the station.
C) Doris will meet by them at the station.
D) Doris will meet them at the station.

Answer 1

Hint: A sentence is called active voice when the subject of the sentence is performing an action and passive sentences are those sentences where the subject of the sentence has something done to it by someone or something. For example, Dad read the book in one day – Active voice; The book was read by Dad in one day – Passive voice.

Complete answer:
An auxiliary verb is used to convert active voice in to passive voice and the auxiliary verb such as “be” - be, am, is, were, being, been, followed by the past participle of the main verb. For example, My mom loves me. I am loved.

Let us analyze the given options:
Option A) Doris will met by them at the station – this is an incorrect answer because this option does not follow the basic rule of converting active into passive voice. However, this is an incorrect answer.
Option B) Doris will be met by them at the station – this the correct answer because this sentence is in simple future tense. 'Doris' is the subject in the sentence; 'will meet’ is converted to 'will be met'; the doer is introduced by the preposition 'by' and the adverb of place 'at the station' remains the same. Therefore, this is the correct answer.
Option C) Doris will meet by them at the station – this is an incorrect answer because ‘will meet’ is the present tense and it is also past participle. Therefore, this formation is incorrect and making it grammatically incorrect. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.
Option D) Doris will meet them at the station – this is an incorrect answer because this option is in the present tense. However, we do not want our answer in the present tense. Thus, this is an incorrect answer.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘B’
They will meet Doris at the station – Active voice
Doris will be met by them at the station – Passive voice

Note: Structure of active and passive voice:
1) Active voice – subject + verb + object
2) Passive voice – Object + verb + subject
Simply exchange the place of the subject and object of the sentence for converting active voice into passive voice and the thumb rule is that passive voice always takes the third form of the verb which is also known as the past participle form of the verb.