Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.
John bought sweets at the store when he visited yesterday.
Option 1: Sweets were to be bought by John at the store when he visited yesterday.
Option 2: Sweets were bought by John at the store when he visited yesterday.
Option 3: Sweets were being bought by John at the store when he visited yesterday.
Option 4: Sweets are bought by John at the store when he visited yesterday.
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Correct Answer: Sweets were bought by John at the store when he visited yesterday.
Solution : The correct choice is the second option .
Passive voice is the voice in which the object experiences an action rather than the person who performs the action. Hence, the object in the active voice becomes the subject in the passive voice.
The structure of the passive voice in the case of the simple past tense is: "Plural object + were + past participle form of the main verb + 'by' followed by the agent of the action + prepositional phrase + rest of the sentence."
Therefore, the sentence in passive voice is: Sweets were bought by John at the store when he visited yesterday.
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