Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
Have they broken the car?
- AHave they been broken by the car?
- BHas they been broken by the car?
- CHas the car been broken by them?
- DHave the car been broken by them?
Solution & Step-by-step Explanation
The original sentence is an interrogative sentence in the Present Perfect Tense ("Have... broken").
The structure for changing an interrogative present perfect active voice sentence to passive voice is:
Has/Have+New Object+been+V3 (Past Participle)+by+New Agent?
The new object is "the car" (singular), so the helping verb changes from "Have" to "Has".
The past participle is "broken".
The pronoun "they" changes to its objective form "them".
Thus, the passive voice form is: "Has the car been broken by them?"
The structure for changing an interrogative present perfect active voice sentence to passive voice is:
Has/Have+New Object+been+V3 (Past Participle)+by+New Agent?
The new object is "the car" (singular), so the helping verb changes from "Have" to "Has".
The past participle is "broken".
The pronoun "they" changes to its objective form "them".
Thus, the passive voice form is: "Has the car been broken by them?"