Kyle Pounds - Past continuous passive

Past Passive Continuous ?

	Singular	Plural
1st person	I was being worked	we were being worked
2nd person	you were being worked	you were worked
3rd person	he, she, it was being worked	they were worked

Past Passive Continuous expresses an action when an action was happening to the subject in the past. To create this tense, put the past form of the to be verb first to make it past; then put the Present Continuous form of the To Be verb to make it continuous; then put the verb in the Past Participle.

----------------------- O Past O --------------------- Present

Context - Past Continuous Passive us usually used in the context of something happening in a specific time in the past, and something else interrupting that action.

Example: Their house was being painted when I visited them.

Practice

1) The police came because the music was being played very loudly.

2) We couldn't go swimming at Kyle's house because his pool was being cleaned.

3) Germany was losing the war in 1944 because their war was being faught on two fronts.

4) It 1994, the Amazon rainforest was being cut down at 40 hectares a second.

5) The nuclear waste was being driven across Nevada when it spilled.

6) I couldn't talk to you when you called me because I was being given a massage.

7) James was very skinny when he was in jail because he wasn't being given enough food.

8) I think I got sick of Britney Spears because she was being played on the radio too much.

9) I left my last job because I wasn't being paid enough money.

10) He was being taken to the hospital when he died.