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  • My name is Alicia and today we're going to talk about active voice and passive voice in English.

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  • I'm going to talk about the differences between active voice and passive voice.

  • I'm going to share with you how to change a really, really simple way.

  • I hope that you can change from active voice, too passive voice, and then I'm going to talk about when you should use thes.

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  • Today's topic is active Voice versus passive voice.

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  • So let's get started with the difference between active and passive.

  • Let's start over here first.

  • What is active voice.

  • What is passive voice?

  • Let's talk about what these topics with these things, even our I'm going to slow down a little bit, too.

  • So first active voice.

  • What is active voice?

  • So active voice is something.

  • It's like, Ah, way of speaking or a way of writing.

  • You can think of it kind of like a style that you use.

  • So in active voice sentences, the focus of the sentence is the person or the thing doing the action we want to focus on, like the person doing something that's our focus for the sentenced or the thing that is doing something.

  • So the actor so in this case actor does not mean like famous person.

  • In a movie, it means the person or the thing doing the action that is the subject of the sentence.

  • So maybe you remember in English Word order.

  • We have subject verb object, so subject verb object is the of the order in which the parts of the sentence are organized.

  • So let's take a look at a couple of basic examples of this active voice.

  • Sentences are, for example, I wrote an email so very simple sentence who wrote the e mail.

  • I did I and the actor.

  • I'm the person doing something.

  • My verb is wrote past tense of right.

  • And then my object is an email.

  • I wrote an email.

  • This is a simple, active voice.

  • Sentence second example here.

  • Uh, he called some friends.

  • He called some friends.

  • So again, in this case, my focus is the person doing the activity.

  • The actor in the sentence My verb here is called past tense of calls or to call means like to call someone on the phone and then some friends, some friends.

  • So these are the things email and friends.

  • These are the things that are like receiving the action.

  • Yeah, so they are affected by the action here, done by the subject.

  • So this is active voice.

  • So active voice in English looks like this.

  • Let's compare this then, too.

  • Passive voice, passive voice.

  • So what is passive voice?

  • So passive voice is different from active voice.

  • In that impassive voice sentences the focus is the person or the thing receiving the action, the person or the thing receiving the action.

  • So in these sentences, our focus is the person or the thing doing the action, impassive voice sentences.

  • We want to focus on the thing, receiving the action.

  • So the person or the thing receiving the action is the subject.

  • So we can kind of imagine a little bit.

  • These sentences are kind of the opposite in some ways.

  • Okay, so some examples them.

  • I've changed these sentences, these active voice sentences into passive voice sentences.

  • So here an email was written.

  • This is a passive voice sentence.

  • An email was written, so we don't know or we don't care about the person who did it.

  • We want to focus on the result here, and email was written and e mail was written.

  • Second, some friends were called.

  • Some friends were called.

  • So again, we don't know who did the action.

  • We don't want to focus on that.

  • We want to focus on like the result.

  • We want to focus on the thing that received the action.

  • So how do we make passive voice to make a passive voice expression you can use?

  • This is a basic powder, and I'm going to show you how to change between the two in part two of today's lesson.

  • So here to make a passive voice expression use your subject, plus the verb to be plus the past participle form of a verb.

  • So subject in this case is an email in this example sentence.

  • My beaver biz was because I'm talking about a past situation and the past participle form of right is written, written.

  • So an email was written.

  • An email was written.

  • The other example.

  • Here This is a plural subject, so plural subject means there's more than one of something.

  • It's plural.

  • So some friends my subject be here I'm using were were because plural subject some friends and then call becomes called in the past partisan over form.

  • So this is the difference between active voice and passive voice in terms of grammar in terms of the, uh, what we want to communicate.

  • So some examples.

  • I saw some examples coming in, Andrew says.

  • The decorations for the party were created yes, by Alicia.

  • So if you want to, you can attach the person.

  • The actor at the end of the sentence don't have to sic.

  • Eraser says.

  • The slipper was nibbled.

  • Good.

  • So maybe like your dog, or like your cat or somebody nibbled on a slipper.

  • That's funny.

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  • I don't know.

  • I don't see any examples on Facebook yet.

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  • I I don't see anything.

  • Lots people saying hello.

  • Some active sentences.

  • Bori says she does her homework every night.

  • So we're going to practice in part to today how to change your active voice sentence into a passive sentence.

  • So I hope you can practice that I don't see much, Uh, in terms of examples and your toes much in terms of example sentences.

  • All righty.

  • Cool.

  • So, uh, please get ready to practice, then.

  • Changing active too passive in part to today's.

  • Listen, we'll take a quick break, and then we'll continue on to that.

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  • So let's get to part two.

  • Part two of today's lesson.

  • If you're just joining, um today's topic is active voice versus passive voice.

  • Now next, I'm going to share.

  • I hope some something that's helpful.

  • Many of you have asked me about this.

  • Um, how to convert?

  • Meaning how to change your active sentence to a passive sentence.

  • So I will move over here.

  • Can I?

  • I'll probably move in between.

  • Maybe it's better to go over here.

  • Okay, I'll do this.

  • So changing.

  • Active, too passive.

  • Let's talk about this.

  • I explained in part one today that when we make an active voice sentence, we have this subject verb object pattern.

  • Right?

  • So I talked about this like I wrote an email or whatever were met with a very basic sentence.

  • So, for example, if my subject is she mailed a letter, I have that same pattern.

  • Yeah, subject verb past tense object, a letter, the thing receiving the action.

  • Another example.

  • We ate all of the cookies So again, subject my verb past tense.

  • All of the cookies receives this action.

  • So how do we change this?

  • These sentences here are active voice sentences.

  • But if we want to change an active voice sentience to a passive voice sentence, how do we do that First of all, you need to make sure that you have these parts of your sentence.

  • So sometimes you I see your comments and you write to me like, how do I make this passive?

  • But there's no object in your sentence.

  • You need that object.

  • So to do this first, take your object.

  • So take the object of the sentence in this case, a letter or all of the cookies in my example.

  • Sentences move these then in your passive sentence to the subject position.

  • So here we're making a passive voice sentence down here.

  • So move the your object moved the object of your sentence into the subject position here.

  • So now my subject becomes a letter or all of the cookies.

  • So that's step one do when we make passive voice sentences.

  • I explained in part one today that the next part is B we use a to B verb, so your be verb should be the same tense as the verb in the active voice sentence.

  • So in this case, these air both past tense mailed and ate these air both past tense verb so be in this sentence should also be past tense.

  • So that means was or were.

  • But make sure your past tense verb matches your subject.

  • By that I mean, if your subject is singular one a letter.

  • Your verb should be waas singular A letter waas if your verb I'm sorry if your subject is plural, as in all of the cookies, all of the cookies were Eat it in this case.

  • So make sure your be verb A matches the tents of your active voice sentence and be matches the number of your subject is its singular or is it plural?

  • Finally, then the verb that's used here take the verb.

  • So again, same verb here This verb needs to be made into the past participle verb form.

  • So in this case, mailed in past tense, we have no change.

  • So the verb to mail is both is mailed in both past tense and in past participle four with eight.

  • However, we change it to Eton, so the verb eat is eaten in past participle form.

  • Please do this a three step process to convert your active voice too passive voice.

  • Another note here that is a little bit hard to see.

  • Sorry, It's just tiny writing this, says also get get.

  • Some of you have asked me about this using get in the position of B.

  • You may sometimes see people use get or Customs got and we do this instead of B.

  • We choose this instead of B for like, unexpected things for unexpected situations.

  • Like some kind of surprise.

  • It's often for negative things, but not always.

  • So I'll talk about some examples of this, but yes, this says get get here.

  • Also get so you may see get used in this position.

  • So to read our our passive voice sentences Ah, letter was mailed, a letter was mailed or all of the cookies were eaten.

  • So let's try to convert these sentences.

  • Maybe you've already seen the answers.

  • 1st 1 let's try.

  • My dog is chasing me around the park.

  • My dog is chasing me around the park.

  • So how do we change this sentence from active to passive?

  • This is an active voice sentence.

  • My dog is chasing me.

  • So first we have to find subject verb object here.

  • Yeah, my subject is my dog in this case and then my verb here I have is chasing.

  • So we're using progressive or continuous form then me.

  • So this is the object.

  • So in other words, me, This is the object of the sentence.

  • This is important to keep in mind.

  • Then I have this extra information around the park.

  • So let's focus on this part.

  • My dog is chasing me.

  • This part matches this part here.

  • So to convert, I need to take my object of my verb in this case me, and put it in the subject position.

  • So remember, when you are the subject of a sentence you're talking about yourself.

  • You need to use I You cannot use me here.

  • I I then my verb in this case in my active sentence, is chasing right here.

  • This is progressive so I need to keep progressive and it's in present.

  • Progressive is chasing.

  • So I am being so.

  • I've used am not, is to match my subject.

  • I am not.

  • I is I am and then progressive for I am being.

  • And then the verb here is chase to chase.

  • So chaste is the past participle form of the verb.

  • Then I can keep this extra information.

  • I am being chased around the park, so that sounds kind of scary, But you can use this if you want to make, like, a funny sentence or if you want Thio, I don't know, maybe scare someone for some reason.

  • So this is how we change an active voice sentence to a passive voice sentence.

  • All right, let's try one more.

  • Uh, one more example.

  • We could hear our neighbors terrible music all night.

  • So my active voice sentence, we could hear our neighbors terrible music all night.

  • So again, same process.

  • Where is my subject?

  • Where's my verb?

  • Where is my object?

  • Here.

  • So here, my subject is we my verb?

  • I have here as well.

  • And I also have this word could So let's keep could there as well.

  • And then our neighbors, our neighbors.

  • So we have well, our neighbors.

  • Terrible music, actually.

  • Sorry, our neighbors.

  • Terrible music.

  • This is a long object.

  • So this part is the object of the sentence.

  • We move it to the subject position.

  • So our neighbors, terrible music could be heard.

  • So again, I'm keeping that could.

  • And my B comes before this.

  • The main verb here, here, so think of Could is kind of like helping us.

  • It's helping us in some ways, like a helping here so it could be heard.

  • So here becomes heard in past participle form could be heard all night.

  • My extra information.

  • So this is how we identify.

  • We find the different parts of the sentence, and we move them around in this way to change from active to passive.

  • So sometimes, yes, sometimes I see your example sentences and like, there's no object in your sentence.

  • So make sure you have all of these parts to make it easier to create your passive sentence.

  • Some examples.

  • Air coming in, calm, wild.

  • Hello, says this software could be updated by this setup.

  • So also, make sure, like just another point, you don't have to include that by someone like it's well, I'll talk about this in part three.

  • You don't have to include the person or the thing doing the action.

  • Like in some cases, you want to remove that or you want to drop it.

  • Okay on base.

  • But everyone's just saying hello.

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  • By the time my mother arrived, her cookies had been eaten by my sister.

  • Very nice.

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  • Thanks, Danny.

  • All right, Uh, let's go to a break, and then we'll go to part three for today.

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  • Then, if you're just joining, today's topic is active voice versus passive voice, active voice versus passive voice.

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  • I'm going to talk about when you should use active and when you should use passive.

  • So first, let's talk about active voice.

  • So when should you use active voice?

  • Use active voice when you want to focus on the person or the thing doing the action.

  • So, for example, you want the responsibility or you want the credit for something you want to be very clear.

  • Who did this thing.

  • For example, I bought you a present.

  • I bought you a present.

  • Why do we want to use active here?

  • Like if I give you a present, I want you to know it's from me.

  • So I use active here I bought you a present.

  • This is much more natural than passive voice.

  • Second, our manager gave everyone over time our manager gave everyone over time.

  • So in this sentence, the topic is over time.

  • Yes, but like we want to use our manager because it's like who gave us the overtime?

  • If you don't know over time means extra work.

  • So you have more work to do.

  • You're working overtime, Uh, over the time that you are scheduled.

  • So in this sentence who gave us over time?

  • Our manager maybe I feel upset or disappointed.

  • I want my co workers to know our manager gave us overtime.

  • So in this case, we want to show the responsibility for a situation.

  • Another example.

  • He forgot my car keys.

  • So in this case, I want to be clear who forgot them.

  • He did So when you want to show focus when you want the person or the thing acting to be the focus of the sentence, use active voice.

  • In contrast that on the other hand, passive voice.

  • When should you use passive voice?

  • This is a little bit trickier.

  • Some people say it sounds more polite, or it sounds more professional to use passive voice.

  • In some cases, yes, because passive voice is can be used to be less direct.

  • But let's talk generally about a couple of different things.

  • This if you want to focus on the person or the thing receiving the action.

  • Focus on the person of the thing, receiving the action.

  • So let's talk.

  • Why?

  • Why do you want to focus on the person or the thing?

  • Receiving something?

  • A couple of reasons First, uh, the actor is unknown, so that means the person doing the action is unknown.

  • We don't know the person who did the action or we're trying to hide something.

  • We're trying to hide something like, We don't want someone to know something.

  • There's a secret or we want to focus on the results.

  • We want to focus on the outcome, the end of something.

  • So let's look at a couple of examples of this.

  • First, the classic example of theft.

  • My car was stolen, my car was stolen, so we use passive voice in a sentence like this because of this reason, we don't know the actor.

  • We don't know the person who stole the car.

  • My car was stolen.

  • Who stole the car?

  • I don't know.

  • So we use passive here.

  • In another example, the research data was faked.

  • The research data was faked, so research data was faked.

  • Faked means someone created it.

  • It's not riel.

  • So the research data was faked.

  • This is something you might use to try to hide something.

  • So if, like you've discovered your teammates created fake data, but you don't want them to get in trouble, you might try to avoid trouble with a sentence like this.

  • The research data was faked.

  • Or maybe you don't know who faked it.

  • Another example.

  • We are being watched.

  • We are being watched.

  • So this maybe you've heard this in, like action movies or suspense movies Like, uh, I am being watched.

  • Actually, I'm being watched right now by all of you.

  • But in that case, it's like this is the focus situation or the person being watched is the focus.

  • We are being watched by who we don't know, so we can use possum voice to describe them.

  • another one.

  • Our team was helped a lot.

  • Our team was helped a lot, so you might use this if you want to focus on the result, so the result in this situation is the help the speaker's team received.

  • So if you want to focus on something like this, it can be better to use passive voice to do that.

  • So regarding the issue of passive voice sounding more professional, the reason people say that is because it can be less direct.

  • So, for example, you don't have to say, uh, like you do this or for like, what's a good example?

  • I got recently about an interview, so if you don't know the person who's going to do the interview, you might ask a question like Will the interview be held next week instead of Are you going toe?

  • Hold the interview next week, so if you use passive voice, you don't have to include the person acting.

  • This could be really helpful if you don't know the person who's going to do the action.

  • So for that reason, it can sound more professional and more polite.

  • But passive voice just because it's passive is not more polite or less polite than active passive voice and active oyster tools that you can use to make your writing more like.

  • Have more depth to make your meaning have a little more depth to it.

  • So that is it for today.

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  • Some active examples air coming and endured.

  • Says my boss gave me overtime.

  • Yes, that is an active boy Sentence.

  • Mahmoud says this painting was drawn by Leonardo da Vinci.

  • Yes.

  • So if you want to focus on the painting as opposed to Davinci Yes.

  • Great.

  • Nice.

  • Passive one.

  • Uh, some other examples.

  • Uh, on Facebook.

  • Hello, everybody on Facebook.

  • I our teacher is being followed.

  • Okay, so one point, Be careful about the verb follow.

  • So in that case, your grammar Great.

  • Our teacher is being followed to follow someone online and to follow someone in person can sometimes, uh, like the meaning can be a little bit ambiguous.

  • Meaning like you can sound like they're two different to different meanings.

  • We're not sure which one.

  • So maybe our teacher is being watched, or this lesson is being watched is good.

  • Maybe a little clearer.

  • Uh, Alright.

  • Um I don't see any other examples yet.

  • So actually, I'm on time today.

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  • Amazing.

  • So I'll end there for today's lesson.

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如何在日常英語中使用被動語態? (How to Use Passive Voice in Everyday Situations in English)

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