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Passive Voice
Perfect Passive
Perfect Passive Forms
The perfect passive combines the passive structure with the present or past perfect to emphasise completion. It is common in formal and business writing when describing what has or had been accomplished.
Formula
Present Perfect Passive
S + has / have + been + past participle
Past Perfect Passive
S + had + been + past participle
Signal: result matters
The report has been submitted. (result = it is done now)
Signal: before past event
The invoices had been sent before the deadline passed.
Example Sentences
The new software has been installed on all workstations.
The invoices had been sent to all clients before the end of last month.
The project has been completed ahead of schedule.
The budget had been approved before the merger was announced.
All applications have been reviewed by the selection committee.
The broken equipment had been replaced by the time the client arrived.
The new guidelines have been distributed to all departments.
The data had been backed up before the system update.
Three candidates have been shortlisted for the position.
The contract had been signed before any work began.
Common Mistakes
The software has been install on all computers.
...has been installed...
Perfect passive requires the PAST PARTICIPLE (not base verb) after 'been'.
The project had been complete before the audit.
...had been completed...
Always use the past participle form: complete → completed.
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