Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice. The interviewers were asking difficult questions.
Difficult questions were being asked by the interviewers.
The original sentence is in active voice: "The interviewers were asking difficult questions." To convert it to passive voice, we need to make the object of the active sentence ("difficult questions") the subject of the passive sentence. The verb needs to be changed to a form of "to be" + past participle of the main verb ("were being asked"). The subject of the active sentence ("the interviewers") becomes the agent in the passive sentence, introduced by "by."
Let's analyze the options:
- Option 1: "Difficult questions are being asked by the interviewers." This uses the present continuous passive, which doesn't match the original sentence's past continuous tense.
- Option 2: "Difficult questions are asked by the interviewers." This uses the simple present passive, which again doesn't match the original tense.
- Option 3: "Difficult questions were asked by the interviewers." This uses the simple past passive, which is closer but doesn't capture the continuous aspect of the original sentence.
- Option 4: "Difficult questions were being asked by the interviewers." This correctly uses the past continuous passive, matching the tense and aspect of the original active voice sentence. This is the correct answer because it maintains the original meaning while changing the grammatical voice.
Therefore, the passive voice equivalent of "The interviewers were asking difficult questions" is "Difficult questions were being asked by the interviewers."
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