The passive voice of perfect present tense
The passive voice of the perfect present tense shows the action is done on object. We should use ‘have/has’ and past participle of verb during interchanging the active sentence into a passive voice of perfect present tense.
We shall see examples of perfect present tense. Both of these sentences are in an active voice.
- I have typed a letter.
- They have cleaned the floor.
In the perfect present tense, we should use the form of have according to the person. It means if the subject of the sentence is first or second person, use have and for the third person with singular number use ‘has’.
Now we shall see the formation.
Formation of active voice and passive voice in the perfect present tense
Active voice
The formation of a sentence in perfect present tense active is-
Subject + have + past participle of verb + object
Passive voice
The formation of passive voice in perfect present tense passive is-
Object + have + been + past participle of verb + by + subject
Now we have to change the active sentence into passive. Let’s see how to change.
In the sentence-
- I have typed a letter.
Formation is-
‘I’ subject + have + past participle of ‘type’ + object ‘a letter’
Now we have to change the sentence into a passive voice.
According to the formation given above, we can write the passive voice of the above sentence as;
‘A letter’ object + has + been + past participle of ‘type’ + by + me
Examples of passive voice 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 have finished the work.
Passive Voice The work has been finished by me.
We Active Voice We have finished the work.
Passive Voice The work has been finished by us.
2nd person - You Active Voice You have finished the work.
Passive Voice The work has been finished by you.
You Active Voice You have finished the work
Passive Voice The work has been finished by you.
3rd person - He Active Voice He has finished the work.
Passive Voice The work has been finished by him.
She Active Voice She has finished the work
Passive Voice The work has been finished by her.
They Active Voice They have finished the work.
Passive Voice The work has been finished by them.
You may also like the following related links.
| Voice |
| Present Simple Tense |
| Simple Past Tense |
| Future Simple Tense |
| Continuous Present Tense |
| Continuous Past Tense |
| Perfect Present Tense |
| Past Perfect Tense |
| Perfect Future Tense |
