Question : Fill in the blanks with an appropriate passive verb form.
They criticized the assignment
The assignment ………………………. by them.
Option 1: was criticized
Option 2: have criticized
Option 3: have been criticized
Option 4: had been criticized
Correct Answer: was criticized
Solution : The correct answer is option 1.
They criticized the assignment
The assignment was criticized by them.
Explanation:
The passive verb form is created in the simple past tense by adding "was or were" before the verb's past participle form.
We need to follow the following rules in order to create the passive voice of simple present tense.
|
Active Voice |
Passive Voice ( Auxiliary Verb- was/were) |
|
Subject + V2+ object |
Object+ was/were V3+ by + subject |
