Change the following sentence into the Active form.
Why had the highly sensitive company report been rejected by the board of directors?
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The original sentence is in the passive voice and uses the past perfect tense: "Why had the highly sensitive company report been rejected by the board of directors?" The structure is "had been + past participle".
To convert this to the active voice, we need to make "the board of directors" the subject performing the action "rejected" on the object "the highly sensitive company report," while maintaining the past perfect tense and the question format.
The correct structure for a 'why' question in the past perfect active voice is: Why + had + subject + past participle + object?
Option A follows this structure: "Why had the board of directors rejected the highly sensitive company report?"