Select the correct passive voice:The principal has forbidden smoking on the campus.
Correct answer: A. Smoking has been forbidden on the campus by the principal.
- A. Smoking has been forbidden on the campus by the principal.
- B. Smoking had been forbidden on the campus by the principal.
- C. Smoking was being forbidden on the campus by the principal.
- D. It is forbidden by the principal to smoke on campus.
Explanation
The correct passive voice conversion of 'The principal has forbidden smoking on the campus.' is 'Smoking has been forbidden on the campus by the principal.' In passive voice transformation, the object of the active sentence ('smoking') becomes the subject in the passive sentence, while the subject ('the principal') is turned into the agent. The tense remains the same: present perfect. Option B changes the tense to past perfect, Option C uses past continuous, and Option D transforms the sentence into a different structure, none of which correctly reflects the original sentence's intent.
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