How would you change "The chef cooks the meal" to passive voice?

Transforming a sentence from active to passive voice involves shifting the focus from the subject performing the action to the subject receiving the action. In the original sentence, "The chef cooks the meal," the chef is the doer of the action, while the meal is the recipient.

The correct transformation into the passive voice is "The meal is cooked by the chef." This structure maintains the present tense and accurately converts the subject and object. The phrase "is cooked" indicates that the action is happening currently, while "by the chef" identifies who is performing the action.

In contrast, the other options shift the tense or structure in ways that do not fit the requirements for present passive voice. They either use past tense or imply a different timing or state of completion. Hence, the answer correctly reflects the present passive voice transformation of the original sentence.