Multiple choice

Directions: Choose an appropriate passive sentence for the given sentence.

The liftman hurled the passenger out of the lift.

  1. The passenger was hurled out of the lift by the liftman.

  2. The liftman was hurled out of the passenger by the lift.

  3. The lift was hurled out of the passenger by the liftman.

  4. The passenger is hurled out of the lift by the liftman.
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A Correct answer
Explanation

The subject of active voice becomes the object in passive voice and vice-versa. Moreover, the subject and the object interchange their placements in the sentence in active and passive voices. Case of past indefinite. In such cases, we use auxiliary 'was/were' + 'third form of the verb'. Hence, option 1.

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