Past Perfect Passive

 

Past Perfect Passive is used to talk about actions or events that happened before some moment or another action in the past:

• The concert had been rescheduled, so the spectators had to wait for another week.
• All tickets had been sold out before we even heard about the concert.
• The dinner had been cooked already when Jeffrey came home. 

 

To make statements with the Past Perfect Passive, use:

had been + the Past Participle form of the verb

 

Singular	Plural
I had been promoted You had been promoted He/she/it had been promoted	We had been promoted You had been promoted They had been promoted

 

• Peter had been fined for speeding twice during the last month, and his driving manner became more careful.
• Had the bank been robbed before the shop was robbed?
• The fish hadn’t been cooked properly, so we sent it back to the kitchen.