Question

14. By whom was the bird killed ?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

Active voice:

"Who killed the bird?"

Passive voice:

“By whom was the bird killed?”

How have I changed the voice?

This( "Who killed the bird?") is the interrogative sentence. There is a simple process to change the voice of this interrogative sentence.

At first you have to change the interrogative sentence to the assertive/declarative form and let’s do a trick- use the “who” as a name like

“Ram”. OK?

Interrogative form:

"Who killed the bird?"

Assertive form with

“Ram”: “Ram killed the bird.”

(You can see, the “who” is changed into “Ram” and the sentence is converted into declarative form as there came a full-stop at the end.

Now change the voice of this assertive formed sentence. So,

“The bird was killed by Ram”

The time has come for the sentence to be converted into interrogative again(Don’t forget that we have converted it into assertive). So, let’s convert it into interrogative form, i.e-

“Was the bird killed by Ram?”

(the “was” is gone to the front as per the grammar rules for an interrogative sentence)

Now there is just a simple task. We have to reconvert the “Ram” into “who”, i.e-

“Was the bird killed by whom” (the “who” is changed into “whom” as it is the passive voice.) and remember to bring the “By whom” always in front of the sentence as it is the rule.

So, we find the real answer, i.e-

“By whom was the bird killed?”

I hope the answer becomes helpful to you!

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