Future continuous

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Hi.How do we make future continuous passive?Ex. I will be sending letters at 8.Passive: letters will be being sent at 8. Is it correct?Thanks

Clive · Accepted Answer

Hi,

Yes.

Much more common, as you perhaps realize, is

eg They will be sending letters at 8.

Clive

Hrsanei · Answer

Thanks Clive.

O.ABOOTTY · Answer

The passive future continuous tense you have given is correct but bear in mind that this tense is not usually used in the passive. Likewise, present perfect continuous tense and future perfect continuous tense are not usually used in the passive.

O.Abootty

Hrsanei · Answer

Thanks Mr. Abootty.

Actually you forgot to mention past perfect continuous tense.

Perfect continuous tenses are never used in passive, not just usually.

Have you ever heard someone say

The windows have been being cleaned.

Passiveforms for these tenses are the same as perfect simple ones.

Regards

Clive · Answer

Hi,

Be careful about saying 'never'. I tend to avoid that word, as do many of the other frequent posters here. You might say I never use ithe word 'never'.

If you do a google search for eg 'have been being', you'll find examples of it in use.

Your search has to exclude all the English language sites, and sites that talk about verbs, tenses, conjugating.

Clive

CalifJim · Answer

hrsaneiPerfect continuous tenses are never used in passive, not just usually.

Actually, this isn't true. I have personally heard people use such constructions in "real life". These passives sometimes come up in an amazingly natural way in the course of a conversation. My favorite, minus the context (for the sake of brevity), is

More and more people have been being laid off every month. (Yes, a friend of mine actually said this, and it made perfect sense within the conversation.)

This doesn't happen often, but it does happen.

CJ

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