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Hi ,

In the question below the correct answer is A , what I want to know is that is it the Voice(Active/Passive) which makes A correct in place of B or is there more to this.

6. The new contract forbids a strike by the transportation union.

(A) forbids a strike by the transportation union (Active Voice)

(B) forbids the transportation union from striking (Passive Voice)

© forbids that there be a strike by the transportation union

(D) will forbid the transportation union from striking

(E) will forbid that the transportation union strikes

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B is not passive. Passive is a form of the verb "be" followed by a past participle, as in: "strikes are forbidden."

 

B is wrong because "forbid from + gerund" is unidiomatic. The correct idiom is "forbid + infinitive."

 

By the way, passive is not necessarily wrong. I have seen scores of SC items in which the correct answer is passive and at least one of the incorrect answers is active.

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