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Are being and getting interchangeable in passive voice sentences? Here we can see that the people have pretty much concluded they are, indeed.

However, my schoolbook suggests only being as the possible answer in the following sentence. (it is a part 2 - gap text - exercise taken from a CAE student book).

They believe that the freedom of the individual is already in danger of being seriously weakened.

Can you help me find some sources that can help me understand why getting is not working for the sentence? Or have the authors forgotten to include it as a possibility?

Alister
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  • There's a discussion of the contexts in which the get passive is more likely here: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/143421/passive-with-to-get – Shoe Mar 05 '18 at 18:51
  • 'Becoming' would also fit in the sentence but 'getting' is an active matter. The attempt to use 'get' or 'getting' as an active verb is non-idiomatic and also non-grammatical. – Nigel J Mar 05 '18 at 20:52

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