Help to change in phrase

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Ben9108  #400516  Sun, 05 Aug 07 08:09 AM

I would be grateful if someone could help me to resolve the following issues.

1. Which tense is correct for the following sentence?

     Clogged drain pipe has been cleaned and resumed in normal.
     Clogged drain pipe had been cleaned and resumed in normal.

2. As the limitation of typing space in a special software to describe the issues, would anyone teach me how to change complete sentence in phrases such as

    (noun phrase, participle phrase or Infinitive phrase....etc) (give some example...thanks)

  
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nona the brit  #400518  Sun, 05 Aug 07 08:13 AM

Neither of your sentences is quite right, especially the 'resumed in normal' part.

  The clogged drain pipe has been cleaned and normal service resumed.
  The clogged drain pipe had been cleaned and normal service resumed.

Both sentences above are correct. Which verb tense you need  depends on the context.

  
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Ben9108  #401044  Mon, 06 Aug 07 03:39 PM
 Nona The Brit wrote:

Neither of your sentences is quite right, especially the 'resumed in normal' part.

  The clogged drain pipe has been cleaned and normal service resumed.
  The clogged drain pipe had been cleaned and normal service resumed.

Both sentences above are correct. Which verb tense you need  depends on the context.

How to change in phrase? would u mind to teach me?

  
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