Sentence improvement (voice: they were the victims, not the agents): choose the correct passive form Original sentence: "They felt humiliated because they realised that they ___." Pick the option that correctly expresses that others deceived them.

Timeline & voice

• “They felt humiliated” (simple past) because of an earlier completed action by others.
• Therefore we need past perfect passive: had been cheated.

Option analysis
had been cheated — correct earlier passive event causing humiliation. ✅have been cheated — present perfect; wrong time frame.had been cheating — active progressive; wrong meaning.were to be cheated — expresses futurity/expectation, not a completed cause.

Final Answer
“… they realised that they had been cheated.”