Multiple choice

Directions: Change the voice of the given sentence.

His friends laughed at the beggar.

  1. The beggar is laughed at his friends.

  2. The beggar was laughed at by his friends.

  3. The beggar was laughed by his friends.

  4. The beggar was being laughed at by his friends.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

While changing the voice, we interchange the respective places of the subject and the object. In passive voice, we always use the third form of the verb with the helping verb. Case of past simple tense. In such cases, we use 'was/were' with the third form of the verb.

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