Passive Voice of Perfect Past Tense

Passive Voice of Perfect Past Tense?- How to Form?

The passive voice of perfect past tense shows the action was done on object. In a passive voice of perfect past tense, to interchange the sentence of active voice into passive voice, the form of ‘have’ in past tense that is, ‘had’ is used with ‘been’ and past participle of a verb.

We shall take some sentences of perfect past tense.

I had drunk water.
They had completed the work.

Both of the above sentences are in an active voice. Now we shall see the formation.

Formation of active voice and passive voice in the perfect past tense

Active voice

The formation of a sentence in an active voice is-

Subject + had +past participle of verb + object + remaining words

Passive voice

The formation of a passive sentence in perfect past tense is-

Object + had + been + past participle of verb+ by + subject

Now we shall see how we can change active sentences into passive.

In the sentence-

I had drunk water.

‘I’ subject + had + past participle of ‘drink’ + object ‘water’

Now, we have to change this sentence into a passive voice.

According to the formation given above, we can write the passive voice of the above sentence as;

Water had been drunk by me.

Water (object) + had + been + past participle of ‘drink’ + by + me

Example with Three Persons

Let’s take an example with three persons of singular as well as a plural number in tabular form.

Have a look-


1st person -I	Active Voice	I had finished the work.
	Passive Voice	The work had been finished by me.
We	Active Voice	We had finished the work.
	Passive Voice	The work had been finished by us.
2nd person -You	Active Voice	You had finished the work.
	Passive Voice	The work had been finished by you.
You	Active Voice	You had finished the work
	Passive Voice	The work had been finished by you.
3rd person - He	Active Voice	He had finished the work.
	Passive Voice	The work had been finished by him.
She	Active Voice	She had finished the work
	Passive Voice	The work had been finished by her.
They	Active Voice	They had finished the work.
	Passive Voice	The work had been finished by them.

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