Question

Choose an appropriate question in relation to the statement given below:

Ask about glass -

(how/make?) ________________

• A. How glass is made?
• B. How is glass made?
• C. How has glass been made?
• D. How does glass made?

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Option B: 'How is glass made' asks a general question about glass and how it's made. 'Is made' is in simple present tense in passive voice. It states a general truth. The sentence is in passive voice because it's about the subject 'glass' that experiences the action 'to be made'.

Hence option B is correct.

Option A: 'How glass is' is not in the correct order. An interrogative sentence in passive voice is of this word order:

'Question word (how) + auxiliary verb (is) + subject (glass) + main verb (made)'

Hence option A is wrong.

Option C: 'Has been made' is in the present perfect tense and states an action completed in the present. But the question asks about something general and not a particular event.

Option D: 'Does...made' is in simple present tense in the active voice. But, the sentence is in passive voice. Also, 'made' is a past tense word whereas 'does' refers to the present. Both don't go together to refer to simple present tense.

Hence options C and D are wrong.