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Choose the correct passive voice transformation for the following sentence:"They strongly suspect that the management has manipulated the financial records to conceal the deficit."
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To transform a complex sentence containing a fact clause ("that-clause") into passive voice, we frequently use an impersonal passive construction starting with the introductory subject 'It'. The main clause "They strongly suspect that..." becomes "It is strongly suspected that...". The subordinate clause "the management has manipulated the financial records..." changes its internal structure into the present perfect passive ("the financial records have been manipulated by the management..."). Omitting the agent 'by them' is standard practice in impersonal passive structures when the subject is an indefinite pronoun like 'they'. For a comprehensive study on grammatical voice, refer to the Wikipedia Reference.
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