Select the correct active form of the given sentence.
One of the passengers was being thoroughly checked by the customs officers.
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2, i.e. The custom officers were thoroughly checking one of the passengers.
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The given sentence is in passive voice. Its tense is past. The following rules should be considered while changing passive form to active voice:
• Identify the subject of the sentence - who is doing an action?
• Rewrite the sentence so the subject is performing the action. |
As per the rule, in order to convert it to active voice, we first interchange the subject and object.
‘The custom officers were thoroughly checking one of the passengers’ is the correct answer.
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