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In advanced English morphosyntax and voice diathesis, active-to-passive voice transformations involve complex operations concerning valency changes, ditransitive object promotion, causative/sensory bare infinitives, and prepositional verbs. Consider the following four advanced propositions regarding active and passive voice conversion: I. When an active ditransitive clause features both a direct object and an indirect object (e.g., 'The board of directors awarded the senior researcher a prestigious fellowship grant'), standard English syntax permits two distinct passive transformations depending on which object is promoted to the subject position (e.g., 'The senior researcher was awarded a prestigious fellowship grant by the board of directors' vs. 'A prestigious fellowship grant was awarded to the senior researcher by the board of directors'), though promoting the personal indirect object is stylistically preferred in professional discourse. II. In active sentences governed by verbs of perception or sensory cognition taking bare infinitives (e.g., 'Witnesses observed the masked suspect enter the secure subterranean vault'), the passive transformation must retain the bare infinitive unchanged, converting it directly into 'The masked suspect was observed enter the secure subterranean vault by witnesses', omitting the prepositional infinitive marker 'to' entirely under all syntactic conditions. III. When converting active clauses containing complex transitive structures with objective complements (e.g., 'The committee elected Dr. Henderson chairperson of the committee'), the objective complement transforms smoothly into a subjective complement following the passive verb form (e.g., 'Dr. Henderson was elected chairperson of the committee by the committee'), maintaining strict nominal and thematic concord. IV. In active sentences featuring phrasal verbs or prepositional verbs where the particle or preposition forms an inseparable semantic unit with the lexical verb (e.g., 'The committee looked into the financial discrepancies', 'The experienced nurse looked after the critical patient'), the preposition or particle must be strictly detached and discarded during passive conversion to prevent syntactic redundancy (e.g., 'The financial discrepancies were looked', 'The critical patient was looked'). Identify the option that correctly evaluates the grammatical, syntactic, and semantic validity of propositions I, II, III, and IV according to standard English grammar and English passive voice principles.
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Let us evaluate each proposition based on standard English grammar and English passive voice principles:
- **Proposition I is CORRECT**: Ditransitive verbs taking both a direct and indirect object allow two passive variants. Promoting the indirect (personal) object is typically preferred in professional discourse, but both are grammatically valid.
- **Proposition II is INCORRECT**: While active sentences of perception take a bare infinitive (e.g., 'observed him enter'), upon passive transformation, the bare infinitive *must* be converted into a full to-infinitive (e.g., 'He was observed *to enter*...'). Omitting 'to' in the passive voice violates English morphosyntax.
- **Proposition III is CORRECT**: Complex transitive structures with an objective complement successfully convert the objective complement into a subjective (predicative) complement in the passive voice (e.g., 'Dr. Henderson was elected chairperson').
- **Proposition IV is INCORRECT**: Prepositional verbs and phrasal verbs that retain an inseparable preposition must keep that preposition/particle intact during passive conversion (e.g., 'The financial discrepancies were looked into'), otherwise the sentence loses its required valency and meaning.
Therefore, only propositions I and III are correct.
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