Continuous tenses in the passive voice

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If you want to conjugate a verb in a continuous tense of the passive voice you have to put be in the continuous tense required by the situation + past participle of the verb you want to conjugate.


  Present Continuous:

They are being rescued by a helicopter.

  Past Continuous:

 Lawyer: When we arrived at the police station, the suspect was being questioned by Inspector Brown.



  Other continuous tenses are rarely used in the passive voice.

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