Select the option that expresses the following sentence in passive voice.
The police is interrogating the peons of my school.
- AThe peons of my school are being interrogated by the police.
- BThe peons of my school has been being interrogated by the police.
- CThe peons of my school have been being interrogated by the police.
- DThe peons of my school were being interrogated by the police.
Solution & Step-by-step Explanation
The given sentence is in the Present Continuous Tense (is interrogating).
The structure for changing Present Continuous active voice to passive voice is:
Object+is/am/are+being+Past Participle (V3)+by+Subject
The object is The peons of my school, which is plural, so we use are.
Add being followed by the V3 form of the verb (interrogated).
Add the agent phrase by the police.
This matches option A perfectly: The peons of my school are being interrogated by the police.
The structure for changing Present Continuous active voice to passive voice is:
Object+is/am/are+being+Past Participle (V3)+by+Subject
The object is The peons of my school, which is plural, so we use are.
Add being followed by the V3 form of the verb (interrogated).
Add the agent phrase by the police.
This matches option A perfectly: The peons of my school are being interrogated by the police.