"She is cooking dinner."
Understanding Active to Passive Voice Transformation
The question asks us to change the given active voice sentence into its passive voice equivalent. The original sentence is: "She is cooking dinner."
Analyzing the Original Sentence
- Tense: The sentence is in the Present Continuous tense. This is indicated by the structure: Subject + 'is' + Verb-ing (cooking) + Object.
- Subject: She
- Verb: is cooking
- Object: dinner
Converting to Passive Voice
To convert a sentence from active to passive voice, we follow these steps:
- The object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence. Here, 'dinner' becomes the new subject.
- The verb changes structure. For the Present Continuous tense (am/is/are + Verb-ing), the passive form is: am/is/are + being + Past Participle (V3).
- The original subject becomes the object of the preposition 'by'. Here, 'She' becomes 'her'.
Applying these rules to "She is cooking dinner":
- Object 'dinner' becomes the subject.
- The verb 'is cooking' (Present Continuous) changes to 'is being cooked' (is + being + V3 of cook).
- Subject 'She' becomes the object of 'by', which is 'her'.
Therefore, the correct passive voice form is: "Dinner is being cooked by her."
Evaluating the Options
- Option 1: "Dinner has been cooked by her." - This is Present Perfect Passive, not Present Continuous Passive.
- Option 2: "Dinner is being cooked by her." - This correctly transforms the Present Continuous tense into the passive voice.
- Option 3: "Dinner was cooked by her." - This is Past Simple Passive, which changes the tense entirely.
- Option 4: "Dinner is cooked by her." - This is Present Simple Passive, which is the passive form of "She cooks dinner", not "She is cooking dinner".
Based on the grammatical rules for transforming Present Continuous tense sentences into the passive voice, Option 2 is the correct choice.
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