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In advanced English syntax and diathesis, voice conversion requires precise transformations regarding subject-verb inversion, object promotion, agent demotion, and morphological adjustments, especially when dealing with complex clause structures, prepositional verbs, and ditransitive constructions. Consider the following four advanced propositions regarding active and passive voice conversion:I. When an active sentence features a ditransitive verb taking both a direct and an indirect object (e.g., 'The board offered her a prestigious fellowship'), standard English permits two distinct passive counterparts depending on which object is promoted to subject rank, yielding either 'She was offered a prestigious fellowship by the board' or 'A prestigious fellowship was offered to her by the board'.II. When an active sentence contains a complex transitive structure with an object complement (e.g., 'The committee elected him chairperson'), the object complement remains in the predicate as a subject complement following the passivized verb, yielding 'He was elected chairperson by the committee' rather than converting the complement into the subject.III. In active sentences governed by causative verbs such as 'let' or 'have' followed by a bare infinitive or participle, the passive transformation is straightforwardly achieved without any lexical replacement, allowing 'They let him go' to convert directly into 'He was let go by them' without auxiliary modification.IV. When converting a sentence featuring a phrasal-prepositional verb into the passive voice, the preposition must be strictly separated from the verb and omitted to prevent syntactic redundancy, turning 'They laughed at the proposal' into 'The proposal was laughed'.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 theory.
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Let us evaluate each advanced proposition regarding active and passive voice conversion:
Proposition I is correct: Ditransitive verbs (such as give, offer, send, teach) take two objects: a direct object and an indirect object. In English syntax, either object can typically be promoted to subject position in the passive voice. Promoting the indirect object yields 'She was offered a prestigious fellowship', while promoting the direct object yields 'A prestigious fellowship was offered to her', retaining the preposition 'to'.
Proposition II is correct: In complex transitive clauses where an object complement describes or renames the direct object (e.g., 'The committee elected him chairperson'), passivizing the direct object promotes it to subject ('He was elected'), while the object complement transitions into a subject complement remaining in the predicate ('chairperson'), rather than becoming the subject itself.
Proposition III is incorrect: While 'let' can sometimes form awkward passives or require restructuring (or use 'be allowed to'), causative verbs like 'have' and 'let' do not behave uniformly like 'make' (which takes a to-infinitive in the passive: 'made to cry'). Specifically, 'He was let go' is a marginal colloquial idiom, but standard formal grammar rejects direct passive conversion for 'let' in many contexts, and causative 'have' cannot be passivized in its causative sense at all (e.g., 'He had his car stolen' is passive in meaning due to the past participle, but 'He had his hair cut' cannot be transformed into '*His hair was had cut').
Proposition IV is incorrect: When a phrasal-prepositional verb takes a preposition (e.g., laugh at, look after, deal with), the preposition is an obligatory grammatical component that must be retained adjacent to the verb in the passive construction (e.g., 'The proposal was laughed at by them'), not omitted. Omitting the preposition results in ungrammaticality and a complete loss of the verb's idiomatic meaning.
Therefore, only propositions I and II are valid. For a comprehensive overview of syntactic voice structures, consult the English passive voice Wikipedia entry.
Proposition I is correct: Ditransitive verbs (such as give, offer, send, teach) take two objects: a direct object and an indirect object. In English syntax, either object can typically be promoted to subject position in the passive voice. Promoting the indirect object yields 'She was offered a prestigious fellowship', while promoting the direct object yields 'A prestigious fellowship was offered to her', retaining the preposition 'to'.
Proposition II is correct: In complex transitive clauses where an object complement describes or renames the direct object (e.g., 'The committee elected him chairperson'), passivizing the direct object promotes it to subject ('He was elected'), while the object complement transitions into a subject complement remaining in the predicate ('chairperson'), rather than becoming the subject itself.
Proposition III is incorrect: While 'let' can sometimes form awkward passives or require restructuring (or use 'be allowed to'), causative verbs like 'have' and 'let' do not behave uniformly like 'make' (which takes a to-infinitive in the passive: 'made to cry'). Specifically, 'He was let go' is a marginal colloquial idiom, but standard formal grammar rejects direct passive conversion for 'let' in many contexts, and causative 'have' cannot be passivized in its causative sense at all (e.g., 'He had his car stolen' is passive in meaning due to the past participle, but 'He had his hair cut' cannot be transformed into '*His hair was had cut').
Proposition IV is incorrect: When a phrasal-prepositional verb takes a preposition (e.g., laugh at, look after, deal with), the preposition is an obligatory grammatical component that must be retained adjacent to the verb in the passive construction (e.g., 'The proposal was laughed at by them'), not omitted. Omitting the preposition results in ungrammaticality and a complete loss of the verb's idiomatic meaning.
Therefore, only propositions I and II are valid. For a comprehensive overview of syntactic voice structures, consult the English passive voice Wikipedia entry.
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