How do I make an interrogative voice sentence from a passive voice sentence?
For example, we have the following sentence:
They will be offered in the fall semester.
How can I make this sentence into an interrogative voice sentence?
Does this work well?
Will they be offered in the fall semester?
Thanks for your help
Best Answer
The passive applies as though auxiliaries were not present, and then any auxiliaries take part in subject-auxiliary inversion just as they would in an active sentence. This is one of the arguments for deriving auxiliaries from outside the core part of a sentence (by a version of Subject Raising).
So, without passive, we have
And with passive, we have
Examples with more complicated sets of auxiliaries work the same: "Courses should have been being offered" = "Someone should have been offering courses".
This is an outline of the treatment in McCawley's TSPE.