Past Perfect Passive
Forming Past Perfect Passive
|Affirmative Form||Object + had + been + verb3 (past participle)|
|Question Form||Had + object + been + verb3 (past participle) ?|
Something had been done by someone before sometime in the past.
Active : The brave men had defended the city.
Passive: The city had been defended by the brave men.
Active : The little girl had broken the window.
Passive: The window had been broken by the little girl.
Active : Had Dorothy solved the problems?
Passive: Had the problems been solved by Dorothy.
Active : Those prisoners had robbed five banks.
Passive: Five banks had been robbed by those prisoners.
Quick ExercisePut the following sentences into passive voice. (past perfect passive)