Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice. They will have to pull down this building as they have not complied with the building regulations of the city.
The correct answer is option 2: "This building will have to be pulled down by them as the building regulations of the city have not been complied with."
Explanation:
The original sentence is in the active voice, with "they" as the subject performing the action of pulling down the building. To convert it into the passive voice, we need to make the object ("this building") the subject of the new sentence. The verb "will have to pull down" becomes "will have to be pulled down". The original subject ("they") becomes the agent of the action, indicated by the preposition "by".
Let's analyze why other options are incorrect:
- Option 1 is grammatically correct but slightly awkward due to the repetition of "by them".
- Option 3 omits "have to", altering the meaning of the sentence. The sense of obligation is lost.
- Option 4 changes the tense, replacing "will have to" with "needs to", which isn't the same future obligation.
Option 2 accurately reflects the original meaning while correctly employing passive voice structure and maintaining consistent tense.
The passive voice emphasizes the action being done to the building, rather than who is performing the action. This shift in focus is the defining characteristic of the passive voice transformation.
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