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They will have seen. They will have been seen.
+146.+ But these are not all the phases of time which we can express. We have progressive, continuous action. So each of these six time forms has a progressive form.
+PRESENT PROGRESSIVE+
+Active+ +Pa.s.sive+
_Singular_ _Singular_
I am seeing. I am being seen.
You are seeing. You are being seen.
He is seeing. He is being seen.
_Plural_ _Plural_
We are seeing. We are being seen.
You are seeing. You are being seen.
They are seeing. They are being seen.
+PAST PROGRESSIVE+
+Active+ +Pa.s.sive+
_Singular_ _Singular_
I was seeing. I was being seen.
You were seeing. You were being seen.
He was seeing. He was being seen.
_Plural_ _Plural_
We were seeing. We were being seen.
You were seeing. You were being seen.
They were seeing. They were being seen.
Only the Present and Past Progressive forms have a pa.s.sive form. The rest of the Progressive forms are expressed in the active forms only.
+FUTURE PROGRESSIVE+
_Singular_ _Plural_
I shall be seeing. We shall be seeing.
You will be seeing. You will be seeing.
He will be seeing. They will be seeing.
+PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE+
_Singular_ _Plural_
I have been seeing. We have been seeing.
You have been seeing. You have been seeing.
He has been seeing. They have been seeing.
+PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE+
_Singular_ _Plural_
I had been seeing. We had been seeing.
You had been seeing. You had been seeing.
He had been seeing. They had been seeing.
+FUTURE PERFECT PROGRESSIVE+
_Singular_ _Plural_
I shall have been seeing. We shall have been seeing.
You will have been seeing. You will have been seeing.
He will have been seeing. They will have been seeing.
Exercise 3
Write the four following sentences in their active and pa.s.sive forms, as the sentence, _War sweeps the earth_, is written.
1. Education gives power.
2. Knowledge frees men.
3. Labor unions help the workers.
4. The people seek justice.
+Present+ _Active_ War sweeps the earth.
_Pa.s.sive_ The earth is swept by war.
+Past+ _Active_ War swept the earth.
_Pa.s.sive_ The earth was swept by war.
+Future+ _Active_ War shall sweep the earth.
_Pa.s.sive_ The earth shall be swept by war.
+Pres. Per.+ _Active_ War has swept the earth.
_Pa.s.sive_ The earth has been swept by war.
+Past Per.+ _Active_ War had swept the earth.
_Pa.s.sive_ The earth had been swept by war.
+Fut. Per.+ _Active_ War shall have swept the earth.
_Pa.s.sive_ The earth shall have been swept by war.
