the below-mentioned question is asked in my exam, I think my answer is correct, please tell if I am right, I have to challenge the question in 2 days if its answer given is wrong.
correct answer is given by examiner.
candidate answer is the answer I ticked as correct.
In the following question, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active voice.
I will keep your secret.
Options:
1) Keeping of your secret will be done by me.
2) I will be keeping the secret of you.
3) Your secret would be kept by me.
4) Your secret I will be keeping.
Correct Answer: Your secret would be kept by me.
Candidate Answer: Keeping of your secret will be done by me.
Best Answer
The given sentence is in the active, and the test requires that the answer use the passive voice. (2) and (4) are active voice.
Answer (1) is a possible, it creates a gerund phrase as the subject. It is possible but it isn't a likely form.
Answer (3) uses the passive voice, but changes the meaning. The word "would" has several meanings, one possibility is as the conclusion to a conditional phrase, in which the condition is not explicit. "Your secret would be kept, (if it wasn't such great gossip)"
So neither is really an acceptable answer. Instead, the most obvious passive form is just "Your secret will be kept (by me)."