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Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
All his friends laughed at him.

Option 1: He became laughable to his friends.

Option 2: He was laughed at by all his friends.

Option 3: His friends were being laughed at by him.

Option 4: All his friends were laughing at him.


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Correct Answer: He was laughed at by all his friends.


Solution : The second option is the correct choice.

In the passive voice, the focus shifts from the doer of the action (his friends, in this case) to the receiver of the action (him).

The structure of the sentence in the passive voice, In case of simple past tense: Singular subject + past participle of the main verb + by followed by the agent of action.

Therefore, the correct answer is: He was laughed at by all his friends.

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