Name: Passive Active Voice REVIEW with example sentences + Homework + QUIZ
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And today we're going to be reviewing the active and passive voice in English.

Now, we've already made a good amount of videos on the passive voice, so if you haven't seen them,

Today, we are going to start with reviewing the basic grammar rule for passive voice as

well as the how and when to use the passive voice.

We're going to do a ton of examples and give you so much practice, that way you are going

that way you are going to be masters of the passive voice.

Make sure you stay until the end of the video because you will have a quiz and homework.

Let's review the basic grammar for the active and passive voice.

“Dutch colonists founded New York in 1624.”

This is an example of a sentence that is written in the active voice.

See active sentences follow the Subject - Verb - Object pattern.

Again, our subject, our verb, and our object.

Here is our sentence written in the passive voice,

So in our active voice sentence, 'New York' is a receiver and written at the end of the sentence.

'New York' is brought to the front because it is now our focus.

Also, for our action, we need a 'to be' verb and the past participle.

In the active voice sentence, we've had… we have 'founded' which is written in the simple past tense.

Well, our 'to be' verb has to match with being simple past tense so we have 'was'

and the past participle which is “founded in 1624.”

We don't mention the Dutch colonists here which is our 'doer'.

As I mentioned in previous videos, sometimes when you write sentences in the passive voice,

you leave out the 'doer' because the information is… it's unnecessary.

So again there's no reason to mention the Dutch colonists here.

Let's read some of these sentences together.

This sentence is written in the active voice.

This sentence is written, that's right you guessed it, in the passive voice.

I need to figure out what word goes in the blank.

I see that our action is 'ate' which is written in past tense.

We remember from earlier, that our actions in passive voice sentences

need a 'to be' verb as well as a past participle.

So I know that since this action is written in past tense,

my 'to be' verb also has to be written in past tense.

This is a sentence written in the active voice.

Our passive voice sentence is, “The paper was cut by the scissors.”

Well, since we have to figure out what's in the blank for our active voice sentence,

let's look at the passive one to help us with that.

Well, I have my 'to be' verb, as well as our past participle.

Now we're going to… it's almost like we're going backwards here, right.

So, we know that our 'to be' verb, or the tense of our 'to be' verb,

has to match our action in our active voice sentence.

So when I think about what our action could be,

What is …? This is 'cut', 'cut', and 'cut'.

So our action in our active voice sentence is 'cut'

So our past tense is 'cut the scissors', 'cut the paper'.

All right, everyone. I need some help finding mistakes in these two sentences.

Both of them are written in the passive voice.

Well I see I have my 'to be' verb, 'was'.

there's something about this past participle that just doesn't seem right.

Well, what is the past participle of write?

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Passive Active Voice REVIEW with example sentences + Homework + QUIZ

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