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Continuous Passives
This week, we're continuing our discussion of passives with a look at continuous passives. We challenge Guy from Martinique to come up with correct sentences using this very tricky grammar. How will he do?

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Continuous Passives

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There are four main elements to a continuous passive sentence: the 'passive subject', the verb 'to be', the word 'being', and the past participle of the verb.

Present continuous passive

passive subject	'to be'	being	past participle
The bridge	is	being	painted	this year
The interviews	are	being	held	in the office

Past continuous passive

passive subject	'to be'	being	past participle
The bridge	was	being	painted	last year
The interviews	were	being	held	in the office

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Now it's your turn to practise continuous passives. Go to our first quiz page on this subject here.

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