Present continuous passive
Exercises PDF

For elementary - intermediate levels.

Active and passive voice exercises Online exercises, PDF worksheets and grammar rules.

PDF worksheets with answers:

Present continuous passive exercises PDF 1

Key with answers 1

• Complete sentences with the verbs in brackets:
  Look at that! A new supermarket ___ in this street. (build)
  Look at that! A new supermarket is being built in this street.

Present continuous passive exercises PDF 2

Key with answers 2

• Rewrite sentences from the active to passive voice:
  They aren't feeding the lions at the moment.
  The ___ at the moment.
  The lions aren't being fed at the moment.

Present continuous passive exercises PDF 3

Key with answers 3

• Use words in the correct order to make sentences in the passive voice:
  make | at the moment | your coffee
  Your coffee is being made at the moment.

Present continuous passive exercises PDF 4

Key with answers 4

• Multiple choice - choose correct forms or words in each sentence:
  Sad stories are being published | is being published nowadays. ___

Present continuous passive exercises PDF 5

Key with answers 5

• Make questions to complete short dialogues:
  A: The entrance hall at the railway station is closed.
  B: Why? ___? (it - reconstruct) - Why? Is it being reconstructed?

More PDF worksheets:

English grammar PDF grammar rules with examples from everyday English.

Present simple passive exercises PDF Exercises with answers to download for free.

Mixed tenses passive exercises PDF Compare passive forms of different tenses.

Present continuous exercises PDF Exercises on the present continuous tense.

All these worksheets are suitable for students of English as a foreign language.

Examples

The passive is formed with the verb to be + being + past participle (Your dinner is being served. More chips are being made.) The past participle is different for regular verbs (test - tested) and irregular verbs (break - broken).

How do you make passive forms?

Positive sentences: Your car is being tested now.
Negative sentences: The lions are not (aren't) being kept in cages these days.
Questions: Is our lunch being made at the moment?
Negative questions: Are the roads not being repaired this year? Aren't the roads being repaired this year?

Difference between the present continuous and present simple passive

We use the present continuous passive when we want to say that some action is in progress.
Your car is being washed. (We are working on it. Your car is not ready yet.)

The present simple passive is used to say that an action is finished.
Your car is washed. (We are finished. You car is ready.)