Analyze the sentence below. “The authorized judges gave eleven women and five men permission to speak out about the situation.” As the underlined item should be rewritten in a pass

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A alternativa WERE GIVEN está correta porque transforma a frase original da voz ativa para a voz passiva, mantendo o tempo verbal passado.

Na voz ativa o verbo é gave (passado simples de to give). Para passar à voz passiva usamos a estrutura to be + past participle no mesmo tempo: aqui, o sujeito da frase torna‑se o complemento ("eleven women and five men"), que é plural, daí o verbo auxiliar no passado ser were.

O particípio passado de give é given, formando were given. Ex.: “The eleven women and five men were given permission by the authorized judges to speak out about the situation.”