Every passing vehicle was being thoroughly checked by the guards ........

English (SSC) Active/Passive voice

Every passing vehicle was being thoroughly checked by the guards.

the guards were thoroughly checking every passing vehicle

the guards have thoroughly checked every passing vehicle

every passing vehicle were thoroughly checking the guards

the guards have been thoroughly checking every passing vehicle.

- Original Statement: Every passing vehicle was being thoroughly checked by the guards.

- Passive voice structure indicating an ongoing action in the past.

- Option 1: The guards were thoroughly checking every passing vehicle.

- Correct. This is the active voice mirroring the original meaning.

- Option 2: The guards have thoroughly checked every passing vehicle.

- Incorrect. This implies the action was completed, which does not match the ongoing nature.

- Option 3: Every passing vehicle were thoroughly checking the guards.

- Incorrect. Subject-verb agreement error, and meaning is reversed.

- Option 4: The guards have been thoroughly checking every passing vehicle.

- Incorrect. This suggests an action starting in the past and continuing to present, but isn’t parallel to "was being."

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