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Active-to-passive voice transformation (causative/necessity with "need") Original sentence: You need to clean your shoes properly. Choose the correctly formed passive-voice equivalent using an infinitive.

Difficulty: Easy

Correct Answer: Your shoes need to be cleaned properly.

Explanation:

Concept/ApproachWith "need", form the passive infinitive: "need to be + past participle". The object "your shoes" becomes the subject.

EvaluationCorrect: "Your shoes need to be cleaned properly."(a), (d) Misassigned subject and awkward semantics.(b) Changes meaning: suggests the person is required, not the action on the shoes.

Final AnswerYour shoes need to be cleaned properly.

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