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In advanced English syntax, transforming sentences containing modal verbs in the past, reflexive pronouns, and embedded interrogative clauses into the passive voice requires precise structural restructuring. Consider the following active-to-passive voice transformations:I. Active: The committee should have addressed the contentious policy issues during yesterday's emergency session.Passive: The contentious policy issues should have been addressed by the committee during yesterday's emergency session.II. Active: The seasoned diplomat reconciled himself to the inevitable collapse of the bilateral trade negotiations.Passive: The inevitable collapse of the bilateral trade negotiations was reconciled to by the seasoned diplomat.III. Active: Nobody knows how the confidential intelligence dossier leaked to the foreign press.Passive: It is unknown how the confidential intelligence dossier was leaked to the foreign press.IV. Active: The unrelenting storm forced the maritime authorities to cancel all ferry services across the strait.Passive: All ferry services across the strait were forced to be cancelled by the maritime authorities due to the unrelenting storm.Identify the option that correctly evaluates the grammatical accuracy and syntactic viability of the passive voice transformations across propositions I, II, III, and IV according to standard English grammar.
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Detailed Explanation
To determine the correct evaluation, let us analyze each proposition:
• **Proposition I is CORRECT**: In sentences with past modal structures (modal + have + past participle), the passive is formed as **modal + have + been + past participle**. Thus, *"should have addressed"* correctly transforms into *"should have been addressed"*.
• **Proposition II is INCORRECT**: Reflexive verbs where the subject and object are coreferential (e.g., *reconciled himself*) typically do not convert naturally into standard passive voice because doing so creates awkward, unidiomatic prepositional strandings and semantic redundancy (*"was reconciled to by..."*).
• **Proposition III is CORRECT**: Sentences with embedded clauses acting as objects (e.g., *how the confidential intelligence dossier leaked...*) often undergo an impersonal passive transformation or use an equivalent copular structure (*"It is unknown how..."*) to preserve natural discourse flow in English.
• **Proposition IV is CORRECT**: Causative or catenative constructions involving verbs like *force* followed by an object and an infinitive can be passivized on the matrix verb, resulting in *"All ferry services... were forced to be cancelled..."*, which adheres to formal syntactic rules.
For a comprehensive understanding of syntactic transformations, consult the Wikipedia Reference on English passive voice structures.
• **Proposition I is CORRECT**: In sentences with past modal structures (modal + have + past participle), the passive is formed as **modal + have + been + past participle**. Thus, *"should have addressed"* correctly transforms into *"should have been addressed"*.
• **Proposition II is INCORRECT**: Reflexive verbs where the subject and object are coreferential (e.g., *reconciled himself*) typically do not convert naturally into standard passive voice because doing so creates awkward, unidiomatic prepositional strandings and semantic redundancy (*"was reconciled to by..."*).
• **Proposition III is CORRECT**: Sentences with embedded clauses acting as objects (e.g., *how the confidential intelligence dossier leaked...*) often undergo an impersonal passive transformation or use an equivalent copular structure (*"It is unknown how..."*) to preserve natural discourse flow in English.
• **Proposition IV is CORRECT**: Causative or catenative constructions involving verbs like *force* followed by an object and an infinitive can be passivized on the matrix verb, resulting in *"All ferry services... were forced to be cancelled..."*, which adheres to formal syntactic rules.
For a comprehensive understanding of syntactic transformations, consult the Wikipedia Reference on English passive voice structures.
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