FUTURE PROGRESSIVE
Singular Plural
I shall be seeing. We shall be seeing.
You will be seeing. You will be seeing.
He will be seeing. They will be seeing.
PRESENT PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
Singular Plural
I have been seeing. We have been seeing.
You have been seeing. You have been seeing.
He has been seeing. They have been seeing.
PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
Singular Plural
I had been seeing. We had been seeing.
You had been seeing. You had been seeing.
He had been seeing. They had been seeing.
FUTURE PERFECT PROGRESSIVE
Singular Plural
I shall have been seeing. We shall have been seeing.
You will have been seeing. You will have been seeing.
He will have been seeing. They will have been seeing.

Exercise 3

Write the four following sentences in their active and passive forms, as the sentence, War sweeps the earth, is written.

  1. Education gives power.
  2. Knowledge frees men.
  3. Labor unions help the workers.
  4. The people seek justice.
Present Actve War sweeps the earth.
Passive The earth is swept by war.
Past Active War swept the earth.
Passive The earth was swept by war.
Future Active War shall sweep the earth.
Passive The earth shall be swept by war.
Pres. Per. Active War has swept the earth.
Passive The earth has been swept by war.
Past Per. Active War had swept the earth.
Passive The earth had been swept by war.
Fut. Per. Active War shall have swept the earth.
Passive The earth shall have been swept by war.

Exercise 4

Underscore all the verbs and verb phrases in the following quotation. Write all the time forms of the transitive verb, lose, as the time forms of the verb see are written in the foregoing table.