Please explain how to change this interrogative sentence into passive voice.
Is he the musician for the evening?
I am not sure how to do it.
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2How can a sentence whose verb phrase is not transitive but copular be passivised?– BillJCommented Dec 3, 2017 at 13:19
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I don't know. This was asked in an exam. I couldn't find a way to change this setntence into passive voice, that's why I put it out. Anyway, thanks for the reply.– ShivamCommented Dec 3, 2017 at 14:17
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Is he the musician for the evening?
It's not possible to change the sentence into the passive as the verb be (is) is a linking verb.
You don't form passive structures with linking verbs like be, seem, become where the complement of the verb refers back to the subject. You need a transitive verb, which has an object, to form the passive. For example:
They requested me (object) to be the musician for the evening (active).
I was requested (by them) to be the musician for the evening (passive).
He is requested to be the musician for the evening.
