How to Use Active & Passive Voice to Improve Your Grammar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มี.ค. 2018
- Let's talk about Active Voice vs Passive Voice. This will help you improve your grammar skills as well as your overall English fluency. Watch & learn.
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Write to us in the comments! We love hearing from you guys. ❤ For more on Active vs Passive Voice, check out the following resources: 👍
Active/Passive: webapps.towson.edu/ows/activepass.htm
EF English: www.ef.com/english-resources/english-grammar/passive-voice-active-voice/
British Council: learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/active-and-passive-voice
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The ship is sailing. Change this sentence into passive voice sir.
The ship is sailing. Change this sentence into passive voice sir.
My grand mother was knit the sweater
My Grand mother knited the sweater
Thank you very much! This is a concrete presentation on the use of Active and Passive voice. Sharing this with my student. Kudos!
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As a screenwriter, I appreciate your helpful review of active versus passive voice. Active voice along with present tense works best in screenwriting because the narration portion of the script must be described in dynamic real time. Just as an audience watches a movie on the big screen, the screenwriter must write it as if it was happening in front of us. Passive voice and past tense sounds too draggy and novel-like for a screenwriter's purposes. Thanks for the punchy lesson.
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Here is simple understanding. :)
verb-ing and verb past participle are adjectives.
: verb-ing shows state of actively doing something.
: verb p.p shows state of being result of past action by others
when you use adjectives, you need be verb to complete the meaning of sentence.
so, < subject+ be(verb) + adjective(kind of object of be) > structure is formed.
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What is the purpose of them? And why do we need to use passive and active, and those are deferent from tenses? Thank you
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Interesting , tell me please teacher : knit stays the same in past simple and participle , i look forward to hearing from you
Hi Abdollah. That's a great question. TO KNIT is an irregular verb. For the past simple & past participle, we can use knit/knitted. Both are okay. I think the -ed form may be more common in the US. So for example: Yesterday, I knit a sweater. / Yesterday, I knitted a sweater. Hope this helps! 😃👍
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Sir You asked a passive form here is:
"What is best friend driven "
wow your gert teacher.
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Very useful lesson,
how can we find there is no object in PV
Thanks for your comment. That's a great question. First, you can ask "Who?" or "What?" the subject is doing to determine if there's an object. If you can answer the question, then the answer is your object. For example: My best friend paints pictures --> What does my best friend paint? (pictures) / She helped me yesterday. --> Who did she help? (me). If there's an object, then we change it to passive. If the sentence is already in the passive voice, then we can change it to active. And the subject in the passive will be the object in the active voice. 😃
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Is it correct?
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Why can,t say (I have kept my diet up over a month)? by putting my diet between a phrasal verb. thank you so much.شكرا جزيلا.
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Why do we use the word voice with passive and active. What does it mean here? Sound or not?
Thanks for your comment Aimanno. That's a great question. The word "voice" refers to the verbs. Here's a good resource: www.dictionary.com/browse/active-voice
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I have a question. If I said, "A Honda is what my friend drives", would it be considered as passive? Does passive voice strictly need to be with a past participle? Also if the statement isn't passive, what would it be categorised as? Or is that just plain bad English? Thanks
Thanks for commenting James. In your sentence, "...what my friend drives" is an adjective clause. So this is not the passive voice. The adjective clause in this case describes the car. 👍
Well explained and understood video - thanks loads - however why is passive voice 'formal' and active voice 'informal' ?? Thx
Hi Isabel. Thanks for your comment. The passive voice has more authority & often used in formal texts because in some contexts the subject may be irrelevant. For example, writing down the steps of a complex procedure. It's not necessary to identify the person/scientist/researcher completing the action each time. Active is more common, easier to read, and therefore viewed as being less formal. 😃👍
Brilliant now I understand. It's not something which is taught in English schools. In fact, in the UK you aren't taught as much grammar as what you ought to be.
Your videos are of great help and it's very much appreciated.
Thank you
@@isabelnavarro6611 We were not taught this either in high school (USA). It's like the U.S. Dept. of Ed. wants everyone to sound stupid. I'm sure they would have another class on Ebonics, before they taught this.
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I'm from Cambodia.
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Let ..can be used in passive voice.. plz teach about it in details
1. My grandmother knitted the sweater.
2. We had locked by someone out of the room. (why can't use had?)
3. I have been kept up my diet for over a month. (why have kept?)
Thanks for writing sentences Annie. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind: 😃👍
2. We were locked out of the room by someone. (Remember to use the verb "to be" + past participle in the Passive.)
3. I have kept up my diet for over a month. (This is an active sentence written in the present perfect. And "to keep" is the main verb.)
Thanks .teacher Wes
You must have heard someone say "I have been kept up 'on' my diet for over a month," which I think is dumb for a native speaker to say but never mind. They've been saying it anyway where I used to live before I relocated to Germany.
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Sir what will be the passive voice of the following senteces.
1-He had told me to do it.
What is voice change definition? Plz say.
Thanks
I have a question
What abut simple future how to change the active to passive
Hi Natalie. Thanks for commenting. Changing the simple future looks like this: He will take the bus. --> The bus will be taken by him. 👍 Truthfully, it's not often used unless when omitting the person/thing doing the action. For example, you may hear something like: The report will be submitted tomorrow. This would be a more common use. 😊
Mr.Wes.I have found this sentence in one of the text books.please give the passive voice."The burglar destroyed several items in the room by the burglar.Even the carpet he has torn..One is in A.V and another is in P.V.So,How to transform this.I know you are busy.Please try to explain.P Siva Rao,India.
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My grandmother knitted the sweater. We was have been locked out of the room.
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