Change the following from active to passive : We shall have dispatched the invitations before Friday evening.

Question

Change the following from active to passive :

We shall have dispatched the invitations before Friday evening.

1. A. The invitations shall have dispatched before Friday evening.
2. B. The invitations shall have had been dispatched before Friday evening.
3. C. The invitations shall have be dispatched before Friday evening.
4. D. The invitations shall have been dispatched before Friday evening. (Correct answer)

Correct Answer

Option D — The invitations shall have been dispatched before Friday evening.

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is The invitations shall have been dispatched by us before Friday evening.

Key Points

• The active sentence is future perfect — *shall have dispatched* — so the passive must be the future perfect passive.
• Its form is shall/will have been + past participle, giving *shall have been dispatched*.
• The object *the invitations* becomes the subject, and the agent *we* becomes by us.
• The distractors mangle the auxiliary chain: omitting *been*, doubling it as *have had been*, or using the base form *be*.

Additional Information

• The full passive ladder by tense: *is done*, *is being done*, *has been done*, *was done*, *was being done*, *had been done*, *will be done*, will/shall have been done.
• Traditionally shall is used with the first person and will with the second and third, though modern usage has largely collapsed the distinction; here *shall* is simply retained from the active sentence.
• Converting voice must leave the tense untouched — only the arrangement of subject, verb and agent changes.