Appendix C — Five-Minute Self-Check Before Submitting Any Voice-Conversion Answer

Run this checklist silently before you mark an option in the exam hall:

1. Did I correctly identify the tense of the original sentence, including whether it's simple, continuous, or perfect?
2. Does my "be" auxiliary match that tense exactly — including "being" for continuous and "been" for perfect, never both, never neither?
3. Is the participle genuinely the past participle (V3), not the base form or the past-simple form?
4. Did the old subject correctly move to a "by-agent" phrase (or get dropped, if appropriately droppable) at the end?
5. Does the new "be" verb agree in number with the new (promoted) subject, not the old one?
6. If this is a question, command, two-object sentence, perception-verb sentence, reporting structure, reported-speech clause, or causative, did I apply that specific pattern from Section 4 rather than the plain declarative formula?
7. Is the verb in the sentence actually passivizable at all, or does it belong to the quasi-passive/stative list in Section 4.7?
8. If the sentence is a causative ("have/get + object + V3"), have I correctly left it as a complete active sentence instead of trying to passivize "have" or "get" themselves?
9. If the sentence is inside reported speech, have I back-shifted the tense and preserved whichever voice — active or passive — the original quotation already had?

If every answer is "yes," the option is almost certainly correct. If any answer is "no" or "not sure," re-scan the four options for the one that fixes exactly that point — exam distractors are built to fail on exactly one of these nine checks at a time.