Passive voice: past perfect - PDF exercises for pre-intermediate, intermediate and advanced students of English to download for free.
Past perfect passive - exercise 1
- Before we collected our car in a car service (complete sentences):
Worn tyres ___ . (replace)
Worn tyres have been replaced.
Past perfect passive - exercise 2
- Rewrite sentences from the active to passive voice:
They hadn't made the meals before we arrived.
The meals ___ before we arrived.
The meals hadn't been made before we arrived.
Past perfect passive - exercise 3
- Use words in brackets to make sentences in the passive voice:
Before the river flooded the town ___ (the new bridge | build)
Before the river flooded the town the new bridge had been built.
Past perfect passive - exercise 4
- Multiple choice - choose correct forms or words in each sentence:
Paul cried. He had been hit | had hit by his friend. ___
Past perfect passive - exercise 5
- Make questions in the passive:
Why did you come to Marion's party? ___ you been ___? (invite)
Had you been invited?
How long ___ before the scientists found it? (the body - freeze)
How long had the body been frozen before the scientists found it?
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