Post #2

Here is a quick overview of the english indicative tenses (for ease I will use the verb "to play"):

She plays. She is playing. She was playing. She played. She has played. She has been playing. She had played. She will play. She will be playing. She will have played. She will have been playing. (The last one may be called "future imperfect".)

Now in the passive:

She is played. She was played. She has been played. She had been played. She will be played. And, she will have been played.

We may also perhaps include: She will have had been playing, and she will have had been played. But personally I don't think that they are anything but redundant.

What is interesting is that english, weaned on both the sperm of her romantic conquerers and the spilt blood of her raped mother tongue, refuses to be pacified when it comes to her abiltiy to find the right time. Using no less than four helping words in the indicative, she slays the lonely brute "Tergiversator". And yet, for that, is only all the more impossible to use!