From the alternatives given below, select the correct passive voice of the following sentence.
The tiger ate all the flesh that the zoo-keeper had kept in the enclosure.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
Correct Answer: All the flesh that had been kept by the zoo-keeper in the enclosure was eaten by the tiger.
Explanation
• The given sentence contains two clauses: a main clause in the simple past tense and a subordinate clause in the past perfect tense.
• In the main clause (The tiger ate all the flesh), the simple past active verb ate changes to was/were + past participle → was eaten.
• In the subordinate clause (that the zoo-keeper had kept...), the past perfect active verb had kept changes to had been + past participle → had been kept.
• Combining both transformed clauses correctly yields: All the flesh that had been kept by the zoo-keeper in the enclosure was eaten by the tiger.