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Kirankumar_kd Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Perfect participle

Hi,

Please explain me the usage of "having helped - active voice " and " having been helped - Passive voice" in Perfect participle
  

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Hi, kirankumar_kd, and welcome to English Forums. First, do you understand the difference between active and passive? In active, the person or thing is the one doing something.

  • Hi, kirankumar_kd, and welcome to English Forums.
  • First, do you understand the difference between active and passive?
  • In active, the person or thing is the one doing something.
  • In passive, the person or thing has something done (by someone else) to him/her/it.
  • The songbird ate the worm.
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Hi, kirankumar_kd, and welcome to English Forums.

First, do you understand the difference between active and passive?

In active, the person or thing is the one doing something.
In passive, the person or thing has something done (by someone else) to him/her/it.

The songbird ate the worm. Here the songbird is the doer - it is eaing the worm.
The songbird was eaten
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Having helped Susan, Michael continued on his way. (Michael helped Susan, that is, Susan was helped by Michael, and then Michael left.)
Having been helped by Michael, Susan continued on her way. (Michael helped Susan, that is, Susan was helped by Michael, and then Susan left.)

CJ

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