Advanced Passive Voice: Continuous and Perfect Forms

Lesson 5: Advanced Passive Voice (Continuous and Perfect Forms).

1. Overview
Expand your command of the passive voice into continuous tenses and perfect aspects for professional and academic writing.

2. Structure and Examples
- Present Continuous Passive: [Object] + [is / are being] + [V3] (e.g., A new feature is being developed right now).
- Past Continuous Passive: [Object] + [was / were being] + [V3] (e.g., The database was being restored when the alarm went off).
- Present Perfect Passive: [Object] + [has / have been] + [V3] (e.g., All security patches have been installed).

3. Practice Exercise
Transform the active sentence into the correct passive form:
1. Active: They are testing the mobile application.
Passive: The mobile application _____ right now.
2. Active: Someone has hacked the server.
Passive: The server _____ .