For the following sentence on police harassment, choose the passive form that correctly expresses "The police is unduly harassing me".

Introduction / Context:
This question tests your understanding of how to convert a present continuous sentence in active voice into an equivalent passive structure. The original sentence describes an ongoing action by the police that is happening at the present moment. The phrase is unduly harassing shows that the harassment is continuing. When we change such sentences into passive voice, we must preserve both the continuous aspect and the present time reference. The correct answer will therefore use am being harassed to show a present continuous passive construction.

Given Data / Assumptions:
Important points from the sentence are listed below.

• Original sentence: The police is unduly harassing me.
• Tense and aspect: present continuous (is harassing).
• Subject: the police (treated here as a collective noun).
• Object: me (the person who suffers the harassment).
• Adverb: unduly, which must be preserved to keep the idea of excessive harassment.

Concept / Approach:
To form the passive of a present continuous sentence, we follow the pattern: subject + am/is/are + being + past participle. The object of the active sentence becomes the subject in the passive sentence. The continuous idea is shown through the word being, and the main verb appears as a past participle. In this case, me becomes the subject I in the passive sentence. The verb harassing in active becomes harassed in passive. Because I is singular, we use am as the form of be. The adverb unduly and the agent by the police need to appear in natural positions in the new sentence.

Step-by-Step Solution:

Verification / Alternative check:
A quick verification method is to reconvert the passive sentence back to active voice. If we start from I am being unduly harassed by the police and reverse the roles, we get The police is unduly harassing me, which matches the original sentence. The tense is still present continuous, the idea of ongoing harassment is preserved, and the adverb unduly is in a natural position. This confirms that the passive conversion is correct in both grammar and meaning.

Why Other Options Are Wrong:
Option A uses am unduly harassed, which is a simple present passive and does not show the continuous nature of the action. Option B uses was unduly harassed, which changes the tense to simple past and suggests a completed action in the past. Option C is ungrammatical because have being is not a correct verb phrase; it should be have been. Option E uses was being unduly harassed, which is past continuous passive and again shifts the time frame to the past. Only option D uses am being unduly harassed, correctly preserving the present continuous sense of the original sentence.

Common Pitfalls:
Students frequently forget to include being in continuous passive forms, resulting in incorrect structures such as am harassed instead of am being harassed. There is also confusion about choosing the correct auxiliary verb for the new subject. Some learners ignore the difference between present and past forms and mistakenly select was when the original sentence is clearly in the present. To avoid these errors, first identify the tense and aspect (simple, continuous, perfect) of the active verb, and then apply the matching passive formula. Check that the new sentence still conveys an ongoing action if the original sentence does so.

Final Answer:
The correct passive sentence is: I am being unduly harassed by the police.