Active /Passive Flashcards
In order to be converted into high-quality digital versions, analog audio files, created at a time when the recording equipment itself introduced pops, hisses, and other anomalous sounds that detract from the performance, analog files must be edited to remove undesirable audio artifacts introduced during the original recording.
A. In order to be converted into high-quality digital versions, analog audio files, created at a time when the recording equipment itself introduced pops, hisses, and other anomalous sounds that detract from the performance,
B. In order to convert analog audio files, created at a time when the recording equipment itself introduced pops, hisses, and other anomalous sounds that detract from the performance, into high-quality digital versions,
C. In order for analog audio files, created at a time when the recording equipment itself introduced pops, hisses, and other anomalous sounds that detract from the performance, to be converted into high-quality digital versions,
D. Analog audio files, created at a time when the recording equipment itself introduced pops, hisses, and other anomalous sounds that detract from the performance, can be converted into high-quality digital versions,
E. Analog audio files, which were created at a time when the recording equipment itself introduced pops, hisses, and other anomalous sounds that detract from the performance and can be converted into high-quality digital versions,
B. In order to convert analog audio files, created at a time when the recording equipment itself introduced pops, hisses, and other anomalous sounds that detract from the performance, into high-quality digital versions,
In order to convert analog audio files into high-quality digital versions, analog files must be edited to remove …
The problem is that we begin with active voice. So we expect a structure such as this “in order to convert A to B, I must edit …” … basically, I must do this to convert this to that…
But the sentence says “in order to convert A to B, files must be edited…” In passive form, it should be “in order to be converted.., files must be …”
C. In order for analog audio files, created at a time when the recording equipment itself introduced pops, hisses, and other anomalous sounds that detract from the performance, to be converted into high-quality digital versions,
In order for analog audio files to be converted into high-quality digital versions, analog files must be edited to remove …
This is correct as per our above discussion.
B) This choice is quite tricky. Strip out the long created … performance modifier and the sentence reads: In order to convert analog audio files into high-quality digital versions, analog files must be edited … . The construction in order to convert is an active construction: someone (or something) is converting the files. In this case, the subject of the core sentence (beginning after the comma) needs to state whoever (or whatever) is performing the conversion. For example: In order to convert from analog to digital, the audio engineer must… The core subject in this problem, however, begins with analog files, implying that the files are converting themselves (In order to convert analog audio files …, analog files must …); this is illogical.
(C) CORRECT. Analog audio files is now part of the modifier in order to convert; it is no longer a subject of the sentence. Further, this choice properly uses the construction: In order for analog audio files to be converted, analog files must be edited. You can use a passive construction (to be converted) to avoid having to say who is converting the files.
