Active-Passive Voice : Perfect Tense

Present Perfect Tense

While changing sentences of this tense into Passive Voice, the Verb is changed into the Past Participle (III) form, preceded by has been/have been as per the new Subject; for example :

Active : You have laughed at your friend.

Passive : Your friend has been laughed at by you.

Active : She has laid the crockery on the dining table.

Passive : The crockery has been laid by her on the dining table.

Active : Why have we picked up these red dresses?
Passive : Why have these red dressed been picked up by us?

Past Perfect Tense

While changing sentences of this tense into Passive Voice, the Verb is changed into the Past Participle (III) form, preceded by had been as per the new Subject; for example :

Active : A little child had made a boat from a torn notebook.

Passive : A boat had been made by a little child from a torn notebook.

Active : The members had elected him the chairman.

Passive : He had been elected the chairman by the members.

Active : Had they milked the cow in the morning?

Passive : Had the cow been milked in the morning by them?

Future Perfect Tense

While changing sentences of this tense into Passive Voice, the Verb is changed into the Past Participle (III) form, preceded by will have been/shall have been as per the new Subject; for example :

Active : You will have taken the letter with you.

Passive : The letter will have been taken by you with you.

Active : She will not have felt any pain from the injection.

Passive : Any pain will not have been felt by her from the injection.

Active : Where shall I have sharpened the pencil?

Passive : Where will the pencil have been sharpened by me?

Note : The sentences in following four tenses cannot be changed into Passive Voice :

1. Future Continuous Tense,

2. Present Perfect Continuous Tense,

3. Past Perfect Continuous Tense, and

4. Future Perfect Continuous Tense.