it is time to wind up the business change into passive voice
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Answer:
It is time for the business to be wound up.
Explanation:
It is time for the business to be wound up will be the passive equivalent. [However, note that the active voice (the given sentence) is a much neater option. The passive voice conversion is grammatically right, but quite clumsy - better avoid it.]
The sentence has two parts (two clauses). It is time is a standard/fixed clause, and it does not change its tense even with past tense forms following it: It is (high) time you started working. It is time my grandfather gave up travelling. [Note the past tense forms started and gave (up)]
In the sentence under consideration, “…to wind up…” is an infinitival clause (hence it does not show tense). It is time is intransitive (i.e., the verb does not require an object for completion of the sense), so only the latter clause can be passivized (if at all). The subject of this infinitival clause is not mentioned (somebody has got to wind up the business). The verb ‘wind up’ can be either transitive or intransitive - here it is transitive - the verb is complemented with an object - windup what? - the business.
So, the business, which was the object of the verb wind up in the active clause, now gets ‘raised’ to subject position. The passive voice always uses the past participle form of the active verb: thus ‘wound up’.
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