Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice. Inayat did not greet her.

Correct — A. The active verb is did not greet — simple past, negative.

A simple past active becomes was/were + past participle in the passive, and the negative sits on the auxiliary: was not greeted.

The object her moves to the front, so it takes the subject form She, and the doer goes into the by-phrase.

She was not greeted by Inayat → option (a).

Why the others are wrong

• (b)
  She was not going to be greeted by Inayat. — was not going to be greeted is future-in-the-past. It reports an intention that was called off, while the paper's sentence says the greeting simply did not happen.
• (c)
  She was not at all greeted by Inayat. — The tense is right, but at all is an emphasiser the active sentence never used. A voice change rearranges the structure and keeps the wording; it does not add force.
• (d)
  She was not being greeted by Inayat. — was not being greeted is the past continuous passive, which answers to the active 'Inayat was not greeting her'. The paper prints did not greet, a completed action.

A voice change keeps the tense and the meaning and moves only the participants.

The recipe for the simple past passive is: object first, then was/were + V3, then by + doer. In a negative, the 'not' attaches to the auxiliary — was not greeted.

Two things decide this item. The passive tense must match the active, so a continuous or a future-in-the-past is already out. And the pronoun changes case: her is an object form, so as the new subject it becomes She.

Key facts

• A simple past active takes was or were plus the past participle in the passive: greeted, not greeting.
• In a negative passive the 'not' follows the auxiliary, as in was not greeted.
• An object pronoun switches to its subject form when it becomes the passive subject: her becomes She.
• The agent may be dropped in English passives, but keep it when the active names the doer, as this sentence names Inayat.

Common traps

• Picking 'was not being greeted' because the longer form feels more formal
• Accepting an added emphasiser such as 'at all' that the active sentence did not contain
• Leaving the object pronoun 'her' at the front instead of writing 'She'

No directly related past PYQ was found.