Thread: Passive voice in the past continuous & present continuous
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Old 11-Dec-2007, 19:19
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Default Re: Passive voice in the past continuous & present continuous
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Originally Posted by bieasy View Post
Hi,

If I say "The tiger had been watching me for hours" And I want to put it in the passive voice. Is it:

"I had been being watched for hours"?? Sounds strange doesn't it?

And what's the passive voice of: "The tiger has been watching me for hours"?
What's grammatically possible, Bieasy, is semantically, something that would rarely occur.
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