Multiple choice

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

The clown was being laughed at by them.

  1. They were laughing at the clown.

  2. They were laughing on the clown.

  3. They were laughed at the clown.

  4. The clown was laughed at by them.
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A Correct answer
Explanation

'Was being' shows that this is a case of past continuous tense. Them' (object) becomes 'they' (subject). Prepositional error in option 2, verb form error in optiojn 3, and voice form error in option 4. Hence, option 1.

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