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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Passive voice
Why in conversation of active into passive these four tenses are not used?
Continuous futute tense
continuous perfect present tense
Continuous perfect past tense
Continuous perfect future tense
Continuous futute tense
continuous perfect present tense
Continuous perfect past tense
Continuous perfect future tense
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". I may be slow to grasp. Every tense has its function when used in appropriate context.
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- I may be slow to grasp.
- Every tense has its function when used in appropriate context.
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Before making any comment, I would like to ask you precisely what you really meant by ""conversation of active into passive...". I may be slow to grasp.
Every tense has its function when used in appropriate context.
Every tense has its function when used in appropriate context.
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The passive of continuous tenses is mostly used in two of them, the simple present continuous and the simple past continuous:
The house is being renovated.
The bridge was being repaired.
Other continuous tenses are seldom used in the passive, if at all. So, such sentences like these:They have been renovating the house/They had been repairing t
The house is being renovated.
The bridge was being repaired.
Other continuous tenses are seldom used in the passive, if at all. So, such sentences like these:They have been renovating the house/They had been repairing t
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