Change the following from active to passive: He placed the parcel in the wooden box beside the entrance.

Explanation

The correct option is (b). To convert an active sentence into passive voice, we make the object of the active sentence the subject of the passive sentence and use the appropriate form of “be” + past participle (V3). The given active sentence is in Simple Past tense: “He placed the parcel”. Copyright © 2026 Adda247 Structure used: Active voice: Subject + V2 + Object + other words. Passive voice: Object (as Subject) + was/were + V3 + by + Subject + other words. Step-by-step conversion: Object in active: “the parcel” becomes the subject in passive. Verb “placed” (V2) becomes “was placed” (was + V3) because the tense is Simple Past and the new subject “parcel” is singular. Agent “He” becomes “by him”. Place phrases “in the wooden box beside the entrance” remain unchanged and are placed appropriately after the verb phrase. Thus, the correct passive sentence is: “The parcel was placed in the wooden box by him beside the entrance.” Why other options are incorrect: Option A: “had been placed” is Past Perfect passive, which changes the tense incorrectly. Option C: Changes the subject incorrectly to “wooden box” and distorts meaning. Option D: “is being placed” is Present Continuous passive, not Simple Past. So the correct answer is (b)