Active and passive voice is one of the virtual structures for ESL learners. They usually find it difficult to change active sentences into passive and vice versa. In article below we are going to talk about present continuous tense active and passive voice. In addition, click Active and Passive Voice Complete Rules, you might find this useful too.
Present Continuous Tense Active and Passive
Affirmative
- Active: S + be + V1 ing + object + ROTS
- They are paving the road right now.
- Passive: S + be + being + V3 + prep + ROTS
- The road is being paved by them right now.
Interrogatives
- Active: Be + S + V1 ing + object + ROTS
- Are they paving the road right now?
- Passive: Be + S + being + V3 + prep + object + ROTS
- Is the road being paved by them right now?
Negatives
- Active: S + be + not + V1 ing + object + ROTS
- They are not paving the road right now.
- Passive: S + be + not + being + V3 + prep + object + ROTS
- The road is not/isn’t being paved by them right now.
Negative interrogatives
- Active: Be not + S + V1 ing + object + ROTS
- Aren`t they paving the road right now?
- Passive: Be not + S + being + V3 + prep + object + ROTS
- Isn`t the road being paved by them right now?
WH/Information questions
- Active: WH + be + S + V1 ing + object + ROTS
- When are they paving the road?
- Passive: WH + be + S + being + V3 + prep + object + ROTS
- When is the road being paved by them?
More Sentences:
Affirmative:
- Active: We are taking a listening test.
- Passive: A listening test is being taken by us.
Negative:
- Active: We are not taking a listening test.
- Passive: A listening test is not being taken.
Interrogative:
- Active: Are we taking a listening test?
- Passive: Is a listening test being taken by us?
Negative interrogative:
- Active: Aren’t we taking a listening test?
- Passive: Isn’t a listening test being taken by us?
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Conclusion:
Would you like to know more about active and passive voice? Check out the useful articles below:
- Active and Passive Voice
- How to Change Active Sentences to Passive Sentences
- Active and Passive Voice of Conditional Clauses
- Passive Voice of Modal Auxiliaries
- Active and Passive Voice of All Tenses
- Active and Passive Voice of Simple Present Tense
- Present Perfect Tense Active and Passive Voice
- Active And Passive Voice of Present Perfect Continuous
- Simple Past Tense Active and Passive Voice
- Active and Passive Voice of Past Continuous Tense
- Past Perfect Continuous Tense Active and Passive Voice
- Active and Passive Voice of Past Perfect Tense
- Active and Passive Voice of Simple Future Tense
- Future Perfect Continuous Tense Active And Passive
- Active and Passive Voice of Future Continuous Tense
