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Half the students were failing the course near the end of the school year.
The sentence is written in passive voice because the course is the subject of the sentence and was being failed is the main verb phrase. The course can't fail. The students are the ones who are failing so to change it you must make the students the subject of the sentence. A is the only option that makes the students the subject.
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the state or quality of being holy, sacred, or saintly.
Grendel is shown as a monster as he was exultant; highly elated about the presence of the kinsmen he wanted to devour.
Can you send me a picture of the page in the story that has that sentence in it and then maybe I will be able to answer you