Multiple choice

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

She was ironing the clothes in her room.

  1. Her room was being ironed the clothes by her.

  2. The clothes was being ironed by her in her room.

  3. The clothes were being ironed by her in her room.

  4. The clothes are being ironed by her in her room.
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C 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 continuous tense. In such cases, we use 'was/were' + being + 'third form of the verb'. 'Clothes', being a plural noun, needs to be followed by a plural auxiliary (i.e. were). Hence, option 3.

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