Converting Active Sentence to Passive Voice: Ajit's Homework Help

The task is to change the given active voice sentence into passive voice. The original sentence describes an action performed by the subject ("Ajit") on the object ("me"). We need to restructure it so that the object becomes the subject and the focus shifts to the action being done to it.

Understanding the Active Sentence

The sentence given in active voice is:

"Ajit does not help me with my homework."

• Subject: Ajit
• Verb: does not help (Simple Present Tense, Negative)
• Object: me
• Prepositional Phrase: with my homework

Steps for Active to Passive Conversion

To convert this sentence into passive voice, follow these steps:

1. Identify the object of the active sentence. Here, the object is "me".
2. Make the object the subject of the passive sentence. "me" becomes "I".
3. Change the verb to the passive form. The active verb is in the Simple Present Tense ("does not help"). The passive form requires the appropriate tense of the verb "to be" plus the past participle of the main verb ("help").
   • Active: Simple Present Negative (does not help)
   • Passive: am/is/are + not + past participle (am/is/are + not + helped)
   Since the new subject is "I", the verb "to be" used is "am". So, the passive verb form is "am not helped".
4. Make the subject of the active sentence the object of the preposition "by". The active subject "Ajit" becomes "by Ajit".
5. Include the remaining parts of the sentence. The phrase "with my homework" remains.

Constructing the Passive Sentence

Following the steps above, we combine the elements:

• New Subject: I
• Passive Verb: am not helped
• Agent: by Ajit
• Remaining Phrase: with my homework

Putting it all together, the passive sentence is: "I am not helped by Ajit with my homework."

Evaluating the Options

Let's compare our derived passive sentence with the given options:

• Option 1: "I am not help by Ajit with my homework." - Incorrect verb form (uses 'help' instead of 'helped').
• Option 2: "I am not helped by Ajit with my homework." - Matches our derived passive sentence.
• Option 3: "I am helped by Ajit with my homework." - Incorrect because it misses the negative aspect ("not").
• Option 4: "I am help by Ajit with my homework." - Incorrect verb form and missing the negative aspect.

Therefore, the correct option correctly transforms the active voice sentence "Ajit does not help me with my homework" into the passive voice "I am not helped by Ajit with my homework."