Kyle Pounds - Past continuous passive

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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 Continuous Passive 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 _______________ (play) very loudly.

2) We couldn't go swimming at Kyle's house because his pool ________________ (clean).

3) Germany was losing the war in 1944 because their war _____________ (fight) on two fronts.

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

5) The nuclear waste ________________ (drive) across Nevada when it spilled.

6) I couldn't talk to you when you called me because I _______________________ (give) a massage.

7) James was very skinny when he was in jail because he ____________________ (give) enough food.

8) I think I got sick of Britney Spears because she _____________________ (play) on the radio too much.

9) I left my last job because I ___________________ (pay) enough money.

10) He _____________________ (take) to the hospital when he died.