Multiple choice

Directions: Select the correct passive voice for the following sentence.

The old man was feeding the sparrows.

  1. The sparrows were fed by the old man.

  2. The sparrows had been fed by the old man.

  3. The sparrows are being fed by the old man.

  4. The sparrows were being fed by the old man.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

While changing the voice of a sentence (from active to passive), we are required to interchange the respective positions of the subject and the object, but the tense remains unchanged and ‘third form of the verb’ is used. However, we add auxiliary to indicate the tense used in the original sentence. This  is a case of past continuous tense. Option 4 is the correct answer.

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