This document provides information about and examples of using the past perfect passive voice. It explains that the past perfect passive is used to show something had been done by someone before sometime in the past. It then gives the affirmative, question, and negative forms of the past perfect passive. Examples are provided to illustrate uses such as expressing completed actions that occurred before other past actions or actions that began in the past and continued until other past actions. Activities with examples of rewriting sentences from active to passive voice in the past perfect tense are also included.

1. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZO
FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION
HUMANAS Y TECNOLOGIAS
ESCUELA DE IDIOMAS
STUDENTS’ NAME:
MIRIAN QUIGLA
DIANA CHAVEZ

2. PAST PERFECT IN PASSIVE VOICE
The past perfect in passive voice
is used to show something had
been done by someone before
sometime in the past.
The structure to form the past
perfect in passive voice is the
following:

3. Affirmative Form
Object + had + been + verb3
(past participle)
Question Form
Had + object + been + verb3
(past participle)?
Negative Form
Object + had + not + been +
verb3 (past participle)

4. USES OF THE PAST PERFECT PASSIVE
The past perfect passive occurs most often
in sentences that express a completed
action that occurred before another action
in the past or that express actions that
began in the past and continued up until
other actions in the past.

5. Examples
 This house had been painted pink before it was given a fresh coat of paint. Now it's
blue.

6.  This guitar had been tuned before I broke a string and had to tune it again.

7. Conclusion
The past perfect passive expresses
previous actions or states with
additional past implications that
began in the past and continued up
to another specific point in the past
while moving an object from an
active sentence into the subject
position.

8. ACTIVITIES
 They had invited the browns.
 They had washes the glasses.
 He had cleaned the room.
 They had informed mother.
The browns had been invited by them
The glasses had been washed by them
The room had been cleaned by him
The mother had been informed by them

9.  They had moved the table.
 Dr. Richard had saved Silvia's life.
 The Americans had discovered another planet.
 Hospital staff hadn't accepted the injured man
 Jerry had received the check just in time.
The table had been moved by them
Silvia’s life had been saved by Dr. Richard
Other planet had been discovered by the Americans
The injured man had not been received by hospital staff
The check had been received by Jerry just in time.

10.  Jim had received an anonymous gift
 I had read an amazing book
 Firefighters had put out the fire successfully.
 Had Dorothy solved the problems?
 The brave men had defended the city.
 The little girl had broken the window.
An anonymous gift had been received by Jim
An amazing book had been read by me.
The fire had been put out by the firefighters successfully
Had the problems been solved by Dorothy?
The city had been defended by the brave men.
The window had been broken by the little girl.