Passive Voice

Present Continuous and Present Continuous Passive

Present Continuous

PC Function:

· Actions which happen at the time of speaking

· Temporary and permanent situations

· Future plans

· Changing situations or trends

· Behaviour that happens more often than expected

PC Form:

· Subject + am/is/are + verb + -ing

· Subject + am/is/are + not + verb + -ing

· Often used with adverbs of frequency (e.g. always, forever, constantly)

as in am/is/are + adverb + verb + -ing

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Present Continuous Passive:

PC Passive Function:

· Actions being done (often by unknown agent) at the time of speaking

· If agent is mentioned, this marked with 'by'.

PC Passive Form:

· Subject + Am/is/are + being + v3/past participle

· Subject + Am/is/are + not + being V3/past participle

· Am (I)/is/are + Subject + being + V3/past participle?

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Past Simple passive

Function:

· Used to focus attention on the object of a sentence

· When the subject is unknown or unimportant

· Can only be used with transitive sentences

o Students should be familiar with the direct object

Form:

· Was or were + (not) + past participle

§ Yes/No: Was/were (not)

· Sometimes formed with "got"

· I got hit by a snowball.

· Doer of the action marked with "by"

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