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Active and Passive Voice: Why "No Passive Voice" for Future Continuous Actions, "I will be writing a book" - Active Voice. Can it be written in Passive Voice Form like "A book will be being written by me?"

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No, it will be " A book will be written by me.
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Without getting into a debate on why your passive form of the sentence might be incorrect, my answer is that the correct sentence is "A book will be written by me".
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This is because if passive voice was used for future continuous tense, the sentence would become self contradictory and thus, not make any sense. For instance, - meaning SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE, refers to THE ACTION TAKING PLACE NOW!
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We may not use passive voice in future continuous in order to avoid clumsiness in the sentences.
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The places of subject and object in sentence are inter-changed in passive voice. 3rd form of verb (past participle) will be used only (as main verb) in passive voice. Active sentences in the future continuous and future perfect continuous tenses cannot be changed to the passive
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Technically there is no reason to avoid using perfect continuous tenses in Passive Voice. However, the language is controlled more by the usage, connotations and preferences than by the rigid grammar rules. Using perfect continuous tenses in passive may seem odd, like in this example: ‘The barber has...
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Technically there is no reason to avoid using perfect continuous tenses in Passive Voice. However, the language is controlled more by the usage, connotations and preferences than by the rigid grammar rules. Using perfect continuous tenses in passive may seem odd, like in this example: ‘The barber has been cutting his client’s hair.’ when changed, “His client’s hair has BEEN BEING cut by the barber.” The ‘be’ form is used twice in the same verb, but nothing grammatically wrong. read less
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The reason why a future continuous tense cannot be passivised is the predominance of modals, and the dangling participle in the active voice.They both are balanced by the copular verb "be".If passivized, there won't be any C- command to the verb import(have being a perfective aspect carrier and do being...
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The reason why a future continuous tense cannot be passivised is the predominance of modals, and the dangling participle in the active voice.They both are balanced by the copular verb "be".If passivized, there won't be any C- command to the verb import(have being a perfective aspect carrier and do being a dummy verb). Hence future continuous and perfect continuous cannot be passivised ; save for their aspectisation faculty. read less
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A book will be written by me
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Though you can write them in Passive Voice it is not used because as Ms Kirti said they would be contradictory and also confusing as the sentence becomes lengthier.
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I can assure you Right Answer is "A book will be written by me". Sanjay gave the right answer
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