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Transform the following complex sentence containing a ditransitive verb and a secondary predicative complement into its correct passive equivalent, ensuring rigorous syntactic precision:"The academic senate unanimously awarded the prestigious postdoctoral fellowship to Dr. Al-Mansoor after reviewing her groundbreaking dissertation."
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In advanced English syntax and Wikipedia Reference grammar, conversion from active to passive voice with ditransitive verbs (verbs taking both a direct and indirect object, such as 'award') requires careful attention to object promotion. When a sentence contains both a direct object ('the prestigious postdoctoral fellowship') and an indirect object preceded by a preposition ('to Dr. Al-Mansoor'), converting the direct object as the primary subject of the passive clause is the most formally robust and idiomatic choice (e.g., 'The prestigious postdoctoral fellowship was awarded to Dr. Al-Mansoor'). Option (b) creates a dangling modifier ambiguity ('after reviewing...') because the understood agent performing the review is detached from the participial phrase. Option (c) awkwardly omits the necessary preposition 'to' before the indirect object when retained after the verb. Option (d) employs an incorrect continuous aspect tense marker ('was being reviewed') where simple past is required by the active timeline.
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