Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
Someone wrote this report last week.

This report _____ by someone last week.

• A. is written
• B. was written
• C. has been written
• D. had been written
• E. would be written

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

was written

An action in a sentence can be represented in two ways, namely active and passive voice.

The passive voice always uses the past participle form of the main verb irrespective of any tense. Only the auxiliary verbs depend upon the sentence given in active voice.

The correct answer is B) was written as the sentence is in the simple past tense. (passive)

Options A, C, D, and E are not correct as the sentence is not in the simple present tense, present perfect tense, past perfect tense and simple future tense respectively.

This report was written by someone last week.