Select the correct active form of the given sentence.
An elderly lady was knocked down by a speeding car this morning.
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
The correct answer is option 3 i.e. A speeding car knocked down an elderly lady this morning.
- The sentence "A speeding car had knocked down an elderly lady this morning" uses the past perfect tense, which typically indicates that an action occurred before another event in the past.
- However, the phrase "this morning" refers to a specific time in the recent past, making the past simple tense more appropriate for this context.
- The past simple tense is generally used to describe actions that happened at a specific time in the past, without needing to emphasize that one event occurred before another.
- Therefore, the correct active form of the sentence should be "A speeding car knocked down an elderly lady this morning."