The passive -ing form is used to express a continuous action.
I don't like being told what to do unless I'm naked.
I don't like being told what to do. I've always wanted to be my own boss
I don't like being told what to do, specially by my dad / by myself / by a woman.
I don't like being cheated.
He remembers being given the book.
When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.
Perfect -ing form passive form is used to talk about the past.
The parcels, having been delivered, were put on the boss's table.
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- AS SUBJECTIVE COMPLEMENT (OF "To be")
- PREPOSITIONS
- NOUN + PREPOSITIONS
- ADJECTIVE + PREPOSITIONS
- AFTER PREPOSITIONS THAT STAND ALONE
- PRASAL VERBS
- AFTER VERBS (AS DIRECT OBJECT)
- GERUND AFTER SET EXPRESSIONS
- GERUND PHRASES
- 1G * AS A SUBJECT
- THE -ING FORMS
- EXAMPLES
- PARTICIPIAL (ADJ.) ADJECTIVES
- GERUNDS VS (PRESENT) PARTICIPLES
- TYPES OF GERUNDS
- GO + ING
- PASSIVE SENSE
- BOOK. THE GERUND. VERBAL AND DEVERBAL USES
- PRESENT PARTICIPLE
- THE BOOK (ing clauses)
- GERUNDS AS OBJECT COMPLEMENTS
- PAST FORMS
- FOR + GERUND (Functions)
- ADVERBIAL PARTICIPLES
- PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVES
- THERE BE + ING
- 2.G * GERUNDS AFTER VERBS
- IN COMPOUND NOUNS
- AS NOUNS (PHRASES)
- THE PERFECT PARTICIPLE
- GERUND AFTER CONJUNCTIONS
- WHILE / WHEN / SINCE -ING (Reduced clauses)
- COMPOUND ADJECTIVES
- IT + ING
- GENITIVE / ACCUSATIVE CASE (GERUNDS/-ING PARTICIPLES
- VERBAL NOUNS
- IN COMPOUND ADJECTIVES
- DEFINITIONS (with ING)
- similes (like + ing)
- AS ADVERBS
- GERUND + VERB + PREPOSITION
- 4. * "IT" AS A PREPARATORY SUBJECT OR OBJECT
- 6.* USED IN COMPOUND NOUNS (AS MODIFIERS)
- GERUND IN PASSIVE SENSE
- GERUND IN PASSIVE FORM
- Pure verbal nouns/deverbal nouns vs. gerunds
- THE BOOK OK
- FINITE AND NON-FINITE VERBS (UNINFLECTED VERBS)
- GERUND AS AN INDIRECT OBJECT
- PAST FORM FOR GERUNDS (The Perfect Gerund)
- ADJECTIVALIZATION (from Phrasal verbs)
- NOMINALIZATION (from Phrasal Verbs)
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