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a. Activity in progress:
He is attending a meeting now.
b. Extended present action will end and therefore lacks the permanence of the
simple present tense:
I am studying geology at the University c.
A temporary situation:
Phyllis is living with her parent d.
Repetition or iteration in a series of similar ongoing action:
Henry is kicking the soccer ball around the backyard e.
Express future when event is planed; usually with a future – time adverbial She is coming tomorrow
f. Emotional comment on present habit usually co-occurring with frequency
adverb always or forever:
He is always wearing the glasses approving
He is forever acting up at these affairs. disapproving g.
A change in progress:
She is becoming more and more like her father
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In addition, other perceptions of the usage of present continuous tense sated by Ron Cowan are:
h. Giving statement more emotional strength and intensity:
This operation is really costing a lot of money
i. Focusing on behavior as a change from the norm
You are being stubborn
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3. The Passive Voice of Present Continuous Tense
As they have already been explained, passive voice is a sentence which is formed by to be, followed by past participle and composed by transitive verbs,
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Marianne Celce Murcia and Diane Larsen Freeman, The Grammar Book, New York: Heine and Heinle publishers, 1999, p.117
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Ron Cowan, The Teacher’s Grammar of English, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2008, p.363
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while the present continuous tense is a tense expresses an activity that is in progress at the moment of speaking. If both are fused, there will be a new
definition that passive voice of present continuous tense is an expression of present continuous tense in form of passive.
As it has mentioned above, the form of passive voice present continuous tense is be +being + past participle. The passive voice subject determines whether
the verb be is singular or plural.
Present Active
Passive Continuous
Students are making a cake A cake is being made by students
Tense Sinta is buying three books
Three books are being bought by Sinta
Here, there will be a classification of sentence as an example above according to its words composition.
The sentence : Students are making a cake
Subject to be V-ing Object Analysis
: The sentence has subject students, to be + V-ing are making and object a cake. Its verb belongs to present continuous tense and
transitive verb because there is an object follows. Thus, it may become passive and it is shown as follows:
The Sentence : A cake is being made by students
Subject to be + V-ing past participle Analysis
: Subject in passive sentence a cake is derived from object of active sentence as shown above. And, object in passive is taken
from subject of active sentence. Object may be involved or not. It is based on the purpose whether the original doer is important or not
to be known. Furthermore, as it has been demonstrated, the transformation of verb belongs to passive present continuous tense.
It is recognized that the formula is to be + V-ing + past participle V3. To be is decided by subject whether it is singular first person
I, plural first person we, singular second person you, singular third person she, he, it, or plural third person they. Subject a
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cake is singular third person; therefore it applies to be as illustrated below:
Singular first person I
am Plural first person
we are
Singular second person you
are Singular third person
she, he, it is
Plural third person they
are The passive voice present continuous tense can be presented in
affirmative, negative, and interrogative form. To make passive voice present continuous tense in affirmative
sentence, the following formula is: subject + to be am is are + being + past participle + by agent. To make passive voice present continuous tense
in negative sentence, the following formula is: subject + to be am is are + not + being + past participle + by agent. To make passive voice present
continuous tense in interrogative sentence, the following formula is: to be am is are + subject + being + past participle + by agent.
a. Affirmative sentence
Subject To
V-ing Past
object Complement
be Participle
They are
being called
by their -
instructor The magazines
read by my big
- which I like very
much brother
My old car is
repaired by a
mechanic -
TonoTinishehe asked
by hisher to help her
mother job
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b. Negative sentence
Subject To
Negative V-ing
Past object
Complement be
Sign Participle
They are
not being
called by their
- instructor
The magazines read
by my big -
which I like very much
brother My old car
is repaired
by a mechanic
- TonoTinishehe
asked by hisher
to help her mother
job c.
Interrogative sentence
To Subject
V-ing Past
object Complement
be Participle
are They
being called
by their -
instructor? The anime books
read by my big
- which I like very much
brother?
is My old car
repaired by a
mechanic? -
TonoTinisheHe asked
by hisher to help her
mother job?
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B. Arrange Word Game 1. The Understanding of Game
