Question

The children were plucking flowers.’
The passive form of the above sentence is
A. Flowers were plucked by the children
B. Flowers are being plucked by the children
C. Flowers were being plucked by the children
D. Flowers have been plucked by the childrenanswer the questions

Answer 1

The sentence will be changed into passive form as follows:

C. Flowers were being plucked by the children.

• To convert a sentence into passive voice, the subject and object are interchanged.
• An auxiliary verb (to be) is added in the tense of the active voice sentence. In the above case, 'being' will be the correct form to use.
• The main verb of the sentence should be in the past participle form 'plucked'.
• Hence, based on the following understanding, option C is the only option that is correct.

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Answer 2

Flowers were being plucked by the children.