Correct Answer:
A. English is spoken all over the world
The question asks for the correct passive voice conversion of the sentence: "People speak English all over the world."
The original sentence is in the present simple active voice, indicating a general truth or habitual action. To transform an active sentence into passive voice, the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence, and the verb form changes to a form of 'to be' plus the past participle of the main verb. The agent (the doer of the action) is often omitted if it's general or unimportant.
- A: English is spoken all over the world. This is the correct passive voice. 'English' (the object) becomes the subject, and 'speak' (present simple) correctly transforms into 'is spoken' (present simple of 'to be' + past participle).
- B: English was spoken all over the world. This uses the past simple passive ('was spoken'), changing the tense from present to past, which is incorrect.
- C: English speaks all over the world. This sentence remains in the active voice and implies English itself performs the action, which is grammatically incorrect and illogical.
- D: English has spoken all over the world. This uses the present perfect active voice ('has spoken'), which is the wrong tense and still in the active voice.