1. Present The car is washed The car is being washed |
2. Present perfect The car has been washed The car has been being washed |
3. Past The car was washed The car was being washed |
4. Past perfect The car had been washed The car had been being washed |
5. Future The car will be washed The car will be being washed |
6. Future perfect The car will have been washed The car will have been being washed |
7. Future (going to) The car is going to be washed The car is going to be being washed |
8. Future perfect (going to) The car is going to have been washed The car is going to have been being washed |
9. Future in past The car was going to be washed The car was going to be being washed |
10. Future perfect in past The car was going to have been washed The car was going to have been being washed |
11. Conditional The car would be washed The car would be being washed |
12. Conditional perfect The car would have been washed The car would have been being washed |
13. Modals The car (can, could, ...) be washed The car (can, could, ...) be being washed |
14. Modals + have The car (can, could, ...) have been washed The car (can, ...) have been being washed |
Tenses - Continuous Tenses
What (must/could...) have been done? - ¿Qué se (debe/podría...) haber hecho?
A house (must/could...) have been built.Se (debe/podría...) haber construido una casa / Una casa (debe/podría...) haber sido construida
- The day had been hot and sunny. The garden should have been
watered at twilight.
El día había estado caluroso y soleado. El jardín debería haber sido regado al anochecer. - Susan feels tired. She must have been working hard lately.
Susan se siente cansada. Ella debe haber estado trabajando duro ultimamente. - These shoes should not have been mended. They are too old.
Estos zapatos no deberían haber sido reparados. Son demasiado viejos. - Smokers should not have been allowed inside the restaurant.
No deberían haber permitido a los fumadores entrar al restaurante. - Should the candles have been lit in the evening?
¿Deberían las velas haber sido encendidas por la noche? - That statue should have been shown in the art gallery.
Esa estatua debería haber sido mostrada en la galería de arte. - Johny was fired. I think he should have been given another opportunity.
Johny fue despedido. Pienso que se le debería haber dado otra oportunidad. - Diana's death could have been prevented.
La muerte de Diana se podría haber evitada. - The infection he had suffered might have been caused by the contaminated catheters.
La infección que él había sufrido podría haber sido causada por los catéteres contaminados. - Could the party have been organized somewhere else?.
¿Podría la fiesta haberse organizado en otra parte?
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