Past Continuous Passive

Passive Use:

The same as mentioned before with the other passive verb forms, we use the passive form when the focus is on the object of the phrase and not the subject. It is often used in journalistic English, when we do not know who caused the action or it isn’t important. Transforming this verb into the passive voice, may cause some confusion due to the fact that the past continuous already contains the auxiliary verb to be. So in the passive form we add an extra particle to obtain this form. Therefore we transform as follows:
Active: bad driving was causing accidents.
Passive: accidents were being caused by bad driving.
According to the tense we are using we change the auxiliary of the verb to be Ex: Accidents were + being caused by bad driving Past Continuous.

Form

Auxiliary of the verb to be in the past was/were + being + past participle.

Affirmative form

Active form	Passive form
I was cleaning the house every day.	The house was being cleaned every day by me.
Triumph was making motorcycles.	Motorcycles were being made by Triumph.

Negative form

Active form	Passive form
I was not cleaning the house every day.	The house wasn’t being cleaned by me every day.
Triumph was not making motorcycles.	Motorcycles weren’t being made by Triumph.

Interrogative form

Active form	Passsive form
Were you cleaning the house every day?	Was the house being cleaned by you every day?
Was Triumph making motorcycles?	Were motorcycles being made by Triumph?

Note important! We can only form a passive sentence from an active sentence when there is an object in the active sentence.