Was expected to have been...

[bartek1988]

Hello,
I am wondering if my reformulations (1-2) of the original sentence are correct. Thank you for any feedback.

I had expected my car to be delivered yesterday, but there was a problem with the paintwork.

1) My car had been expected to have been delivered yesterday, but there was a problem with the paintwork.
2) My car was expected to have been delivered yesterday, but there was a problem with the paintwork.

 

[tedmc]

I think there is no need to use the past perfect tense in the original sentence and in (1). The simple past is good enough.

 

[bartek1988]

Ok, so Sentence 1 is wrong but 2 is correct?

 

[Rover_KE]

The use of the passive voice makes them both unnatural.

 

[Tarheel]

They are unnecessarily complicated. Try:

I expected my car to be delivered yesterday, but there was a problem with the paperwork, and it wasn't.

 

[Annabel Lee]

I had expected my car to be delivered yesterday

If you want to use the past-perfect passive in the main clause, it would be better to use the active in the infinitive clause:

active: I had expected them to deliver my car yesterday. --> passive: They had been expected to deliver my car yesterday.

 

[emsr2d2]

passive: They had been expected to deliver my car yesterday.

No BrE speaker would utter that sentence.

 

[jutfrank]

Ok, so Sentence 1 is wrong but 2 is correct?

Correct in what sense?

My answer is that you've made a mistake by even attempting to transfrom the sentence into the passive voice. Why would you do that? The sentence is fine as it is.

If your specific goal here is for some reason to use the car as the sentence subject, then you could say it like this:

My car was meant to be delivered yesterday, but there was a problem with the paperwork.

 

[Annabel Lee]

No BrE speaker would utter that sentence.

It's the same pattern found in:

I had been expected to take out the trash before my parents started making my little brother do it instead.

 

[5jj]

It's the same pattern found in:

I had been expected to take out the trash before my parents started making my little brother do it instead.

It is, and it's correct grammatically.

However, I suspect few native speakers would use both a past perfect and a passive form there.

 

[jutfrank]

I suspect few native speakers would use both a past perfect and a passive form there.

Well, they would if they had a reason to do so. I mean, if the style, or genre type, or any other aspect of discourse warranted it.

 

[Tarheel]

Many things are possible but unlikely. In fact, they can be so unlikely that they are not worth spending time on.