| FUTURE TIME |
|---|
| Active | Passive |
|---|
| Singular | Singular |
|---|
| I shall see. | I shall be seen. |
| You will see. | You will be seen. |
| He will see. | He will be seen. |
|
| Plural | Plural |
|---|
| We shall see. | We shall be seen. |
| You will see. | You will be seen. |
| They will see. | They will be seen. |
Then you remember we had to devise a way of describing an action perfected or completed at the present or at some time in the past or at some time in the future—so we have present perfect, past perfect and future perfect.
| PRESENT PERFECT |
|---|
| Active | Passive |
|---|
| Singular | Singular |
|---|
| I have seen. | I have been seen. |
| You have seen. | You have been seen. |
| He has seen. | He has been seen. |
| Plural | Plural |
|---|
| We have seen. | We have been seen. |
| You have seen. | You have been seen. |
| They have seen. | They have been seen. |
| PAST PERFECT |
|---|
| Active | Passive |
|---|
| Singular | Singular |
|---|
| I had seen. | I had been seen. |
| You had seen. | You had been seen. |
| He had seen. | He had been seen. |
| Plural | Plural |
|---|
| We had seen. | We had been seen. |
| You had seen. | You had been seen. |
| They had seen. | They had been seen. |
| FUTURE PERFECT |
|---|
| Active | Passive |
|---|
| Singular | Singular |
|---|
| I shall have seen. | I shall have been seen. |
| You will have seen. | You will have been seen. |
| He will have seen. | He will have been seen. |
| Plural | Plural |
|---|
| We shall have seen. | We shall have been seen. |
| You will have seen. | You will have been seen. |
| 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 | Passive |
|---|
| 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 | Passive |
|---|
| 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 passive form. The rest of the Progressive forms are expressed in the active forms only.