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In advanced English morphosyntax and voice transformation, converting active clauses into passive voice requires intricate adjustments regarding valency, ditransitive objects, complementation structures, and agentive constraints. Consider the following four advanced propositions regarding active-to-passive voice conversion: I. When an active clause features a ditransitive verb taking both a direct and an indirect object (e.g., "The board awarded the diligent researcher a prestigious fellowship"), standard English syntax permits two distinct passive formulations depending on which object is promoted to the subject position (e.g., "The diligent researcher was awarded a prestigious fellowship by the board" vs. "A prestigious fellowship was awarded to the diligent researcher by the board"). II. Active clauses containing intransitive verbs of motion, state, or manner (e.g., "The sudden thunderstorm erupted without warning", "She slept soundly for eight hours") can be freely converted into the passive voice by suppressing the intransitive subject and reallocating adverbial adjuncts into agentive positions. III. When an active clause contains a complex transitive structure with an object complement (e.g., "The committee elected Dr. Henderson chairperson of the linguistic department"), the object complement transforms into a subject complement following the promoted direct object in the passive counterpart (e.g., "Dr. Henderson was elected chairperson of the linguistic department by the committee"). IV. Active clauses featuring middle verbs or stative verbs expressing possession, measure, or resemblance (e.g., "This expansive estate comprises twelve luxurious bedrooms", "The vintage portrait resembles his maternal grandfather") routinely undergo flawless passive transformation in formal discourse (e.g., "Twelve luxurious bedrooms are comprised by this expansive estate"). 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 Passive voice principles.
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To determine the validity of the propositions:
- **Proposition I is valid:** Ditransitive verbs (like *award*, *give*, *send*) allow two passive forms by promoting either the indirect object or the direct object to subject status.
- **Proposition II is invalid:** Intransitive verbs do not take a direct object; hence, they cannot be passivized because passivization fundamentally requires the promotion of a direct object to the subject slot.
- **Proposition III is valid:** In complex transitive structures with object complements (like *elect*, *appoint*, *make*), the object complement becomes a subject complement in the passive voice.
- **Proposition IV is invalid:** Stative and middle verbs expressing possession, measure, or resemblance (e.g., *comprise*, *resemble*, *have*, *fit*) resist or reject passive transformation in standard English.
Therefore, propositions I and III are correct, making (a) the right choice according to standard Passive voice principles.
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