Choose the option that changes the given sentence from Active Voice to Passive…

Correct passive sentence: The victorious king was welcomed by the jubilant people.

• Step 1: Identify parts of the active sentence.

  • Subject (doer): the jubilant people

  • Verb (simple past): welcomed

  • Object (receiver): the victorious king

• Step 2: Move the object to subject position and keep the tense.

• Step 3: Use the appropriate auxiliary verb to match simple past (was) + past participle of the main verb (welcomed).

• Step 4: Add the agent with by to preserve who performed the action: by the jubilant people.

• Putting it together gives: The victorious king was welcomed by the jubilant people.

Why the other choices are not fully correct:

• The victorious king was welcomed.

  - This is a correct passive form but omits the agent "by the jubilant people," so it does not fully preserve the original information.

• The victorious king has been welcomed by the jubilant people.

  - This changes the tense/aspect to present perfect (has been welcomed), which alters the time reference compared with the original simple past.

• The victorious king had been welcomed by the jubilant people.

  - This uses past perfect (had been welcomed), which implies a different sequence of events and so changes the original meaning.

Quick formula for converting simple past active to passive:

• Object of active sentence → subject of passive sentence

• Use appropriate auxiliary to match tense (simple past → was/were) + past participle of main verb

• Add the agent with by if you want to keep who performed the action