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Default Re: Passive voice in the past continuous & present continuous

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Originally Posted by bieasy View Post
"I had been being watched for hours"?? Sounds strange doesn't it?
Yes, it does. And so we usually say, "I had been watched..."

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And what's the passive voice of: "The tiger has been watching me for hours"?
The same as in my previous answer, except that "had" becomes "have": "I have been watched..."

It's possible to do this, because in the active voice, we can change the sentences to "The tiger has/had watched me for hours" without changing the meaning.
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