The passive with Progressive

Aspect
What is progressive aspect?
The progressive aspect is a verb form that expresses incomplete or
ongoing actions or states at a specific time. Progressive aspect is the
collective term for verbs (past, present, or future) in a progressive
tense. (This means the perfect progressive tenses too.)

Examples of Verbs in the Progressive Aspect:

In the Past Tense
He was singing. (Progressive tense)
We were playing. (Progressive tense)
She had been flying. (Perfect progressive tense)
In the Present Tense
I am leaving. (Progressive tense)
They are diving. (Progressive tense)
They have been fighting. (Perfect progressive tense)
In the Future Tense
I will be flying. (Progressive tense)
They will be acting. (Progressive tense)
She will have been singing. (Perfect progressive tense)

 Verb Tenses Showing the Progressive Aspect

Past Tenses

Example

simple past tense

past progressive tense
past perfect tense
past perfect progressive tense
Present Tenses
simple present tense
present progressive tense
present perfect tense
present perfect progressive tense
Future Tenses
simple future tense
future progressive tense
future perfect tense
future perfect progressive tense

I went
I was going
I had gone
I had been going
Example
I go
I am going
I have gone
I have been going
Example
I will go
I will be going
I will have gone
I will have been going

Progressive forms with be

The
verb to
be is
used
as
an
auxiliary
to
denote
the progressive or continuous aspect of an action; it is thus used to
form the "present progressive" and "past progressive" and other
progressive tenses (also called the present continuous and past
continuous tenses, etc.). In this case, be is followed by the present

Sample
verb
"walk"

Present
progressive

Future
progressive

Past
progressive

Present
perfect
progressive

Past perfect
progressive

1st sing

I am walking

I will be
walking

I was walking

I have been
walking

I had been
walking

2nd sing

you are
walking

You will be
walking

You were
walking

You have been

walking

You had been

walking

3rd sing

he / she... is
walking

He / she ... will

be walking

He/ she ...

was walking

He / she... have
been walking

he / she ... had

been walking

1st plural

we are
walking

We will be
walking

We were
walking

We have been
walking

We had been
walking

2nd
plural

you are
walking

You will be
walking

You were
walking

You have been

walking

You had been

walking

3rd plural

they are
walking

They will be
walking

They were
walking

They have
been walking

They had been

walking

Progressive tenses in the passive

As to be is used both to form passive tenses, and tenses with
progressive aspect, it follows that it is used twice in verb forms that
are
both
passive
and
progressive..
While a complete range of tenses is theoretically possible, in practice
English only has two passive progressive tenses, the present
progressive passive, and the past progressive passive.

Sample verb "help"

Present progressive passive

Past progressive passive

1st sing

I am being helped

I was being helped

3rd sing

It... is being helped

He / she ... was being helped

Etc.

Forming the progressive aspect in the passive:

If the verb in the active sentence is in the progressive aspect, then
being is inserted between the progressive form of be and the past
participle of the main verb.

Examples:

The dean is firing our

professor.
Our professor is being fired
by the dean
The dean was firing our
professor.
Our professor was being fired by
the dean

Active sentence
with continuous
aspect
Passive sentence
with continuous
Active sentence
with continuous
Passive sentence
with continuous
aspect