The order was delivered yesterday vs The order had delivered yesterday

The correct choice is "The order was delivered yesterday." The second sentence, "The order had delivered yesterday," is not right because it incorrectly uses the past perfect tense.

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The order was delivered yesterday

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to indicate that the delivery of the order took place in the past, specifically yesterday.

Examples:

The order was delivered yesterday, but I wasn't home to receive it.
I received a notification that the order was delivered yesterday afternoon.
She confirmed that the order was delivered yesterday morning.
We found out that the order was delivered yesterday evening.
The customer service representative assured me that the order was delivered yesterday.

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It was delivered yesterday as part of her discharge.
For details on the return policy, please choose the region where the order was delivered: European Union or United States and rest of the world.
According to Danover Labs, the order was delivered to a Dr. Henry McGlasson.
It was delivered yesterday, 9 February 2012, the allowance for the sponsorship of sporting project "Campioni del Sole".
She was carved from a two-ton slab of Belgian gray marble that was delivered yesterday at 5:00 p. m.
And when that marble was delivered yesterday, all you had to do was hide it.
Shipping expenses will be invoiced as a lump sum, even if the order was delivered in a number of separate packages. The subscription price for our professional magazines includes the VAT and the shipping costs for the contract period concerned.
On March 30, 1944 the commander of crew with two intelligence agents the order for the river Pripyat with information on the situation was sent to the commander of group of Chernak to depart; the order was delivered.
Identification of the trading venue where the order was submitted.
But the order was for you.
COLT met this requirement by using the professional project management skills within its team and once the order had been received, the solution was delivered within just three weeks.
When the order was made, this was specially requested.
The order was religious and worshipped Kali, the goddess of blood.
He told me that the Order was wrong.
Someone in the order was accused of letting some Bajoran prisoners escape.
Danforth convinced Biden the order wasn't fair to Thomas.
Caravaggio's militancy in the Order was very brief.
Is Clarence dead? The order was revers'd.
The order was persecuted during the civil war.
The order was given at 1627, code name Pericles One.

The order had delivered yesterday

This phrase is incorrect in English.

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The Order had not considered this cloak to be a threat against Cardassia.
By that stage, the orders had already gone out.
By the end of the 16th century the Order had 7,268 members distributed in 30 provinces and 664 friars.
In August 1991, the Order had already started its relief activities with the creation of a co-ordination centre in Zagreb.
COLT met this requirement by using the professional project management skills within its team and once the order had been received, the solution was delivered within just three weeks.
The Order had a guide, a Rule and now also the first Mother House.
I hadn't realised the Order had given up the custom until then.
Actually, it's the expiration date that makes stealing what I delivered yesterday even crazier.
We've checked, 16 barrels were delivered yesterday.
It was delivered yesterday as part of her discharge.
They were still being delivered yesterday.
It was delivered yesterday, 9 February 2012, the allowance for the sponsorship of sporting project "Campioni del Sole".
Ruxin had it delivered yesterday, so I had to leave it at the morgue overnight.
She was carved from a two-ton slab of Belgian gray marble that was delivered yesterday at 5:00 p. m.
And when that marble was delivered yesterday, all you had to do was hide it.
The Order had begun to act in the city of Venice and the sphere of its activities and influence increased more and more, becoming more and more powerful.
In the last years of their stay in the Holy Land the Order had felt it necessary to have some ships of its own, especially after moving the Hospital to Acre which had become a harbour of great strategic and mercantile importance in this period of hostility.
The construction of the Lower Basilica of Assisi is a direct consequence of the influence on the Order had by the succession of some new general Fathers of French origins to Friar Elia, in 1239.
Why is he taking away the jib he delivered yesterday?
Can I borrow that Reader's Digest I delivered yesterday?

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