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Choose the most appropriate passive construction of the following sentence from the options given below:

His friends assured him of various promising possibilities.

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 3

In the passive, the object 'him' becomes the subject and the doer follows 'by': 'He was assured of various promising possibilities by his friends.' Options 1 and 2 remain active, and option 4 changes the structure and meaning of the original sentence.

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