From the alternatives given below, select the correct passive voice of the following sentence. The students were imitating the way of the description by the teacher.
The way of the description by the teacher was being imitated by the students.
We have to change the active sentence into the passive voice while keeping the same tense.
The active sentence is in the past continuous tense: 'were imitating', which describes an ongoing past action.
The passive of the past continuous follows the pattern: object + was/were + being + past participle + by + subject.
The object 'the way of the description by the teacher' is singular in focus, so it takes 'was being' plus the past participle 'imitated'.
This gives: 'The way of the description by the teacher was being imitated by the students.'
Option 1 uses 'was imitated', which is simple past passive, not past continuous, so it changes the tense.
Option 2 wrongly uses 'were being' with a singular subject, and option 3 uses 'had been', which is past perfect, again altering the tense.
Hence, the correct answer is The way of the description by the teacher was being imitated by the students.
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