Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice. A honeybee stung her in the apiary.
She was stung by a honeybee in the apiary.
The conversion: the object of the active sentence becomes the subject, the verb takes the form be + past participle, and the original subject follows by.
Applying it. The object is her, which becomes the subject pronoun she. The active verb stung is the simple past, so the passive is was stung. The agent ‘a honeybee’ moves after by.
That gives ‘She was stung by a honeybee in the apiary.’
Why the others fail:
‘She stung a honeybee in the apiary.’ — still active, and it reverses who stung whom.
‘A honeybee got her stung in the apiary.’ — a causative construction, meaning the bee arranged for someone else to sting her. Not the original sense at all.
‘She stung herself by a honeybee in the apiary.’ — reflexive and self-contradictory; one cannot sting oneself by means of a bee.
Note the pronoun change: object pronouns become subject pronouns in the passive — me → I, him → he, her → she, them → they.
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