Understanding Passive Voice Transformation

The question asks us to convert a sentence from active voice to passive voice. The original sentence is in the active voice, meaning the subject performs the action. The passive voice focuses on the action being done to the object.

Converting Future Simple Tense to Passive Voice

The given sentence, "The chef will prepare the meal by noon," is in the Future Simple tense. The structure for the Future Simple active voice is:

Subject + will + Base Verb + Object

To convert this to the passive voice, we follow these steps:

• The object of the active sentence ("the meal") becomes the subject of the passive sentence.
• The verb changes form to: $will + be + Past Participle$. The past participle of "prepare" is "prepared". So, the verb becomes "will be prepared".
• The subject of the active sentence ("The chef") becomes the object of the preposition "by" (the agent), appearing as "by the chef".
• Other elements, like the time phrase "by noon", are retained.

Applying these rules gives us:

Object + $will + be + Past Participle$ + (by + Subject) + Other elements

"The meal" + $"will be prepared"$ + "by the chef" + "by noon".

Therefore, the correct passive form is: "The meal will be prepared by the chef by noon."

Analyzing the Options

• Option 1: "The meal will be prepared by the chef by noon." This option correctly follows the rules for converting the Future Simple tense from active to passive voice. The object becomes the subject, the verb is correctly formed (will be prepared), and the agent is included.
• Option 2: "The chef will be prepared the meal." This sentence structure is incorrect. It seems to attempt a passive construction but misplaces the agent and uses an incorrect verb form.
• Option 3: "The meal would be prepared by noon." This option uses the wrong modal verb ("would" instead of "will") and omits the agent ("by the chef"), making it an incomplete and incorrect passive form of the original sentence.
• Option 4: "The meal will prepared by the chef by noon." This option is missing the auxiliary verb "be" required for the passive voice construction in the Future Simple tense. It should be "will be prepared", not just "will prepared".

Based on the analysis, Option 1 is the only correct passive form of the given active sentence.