Name: PASSIVE VOICE | Learn How To Change From Active to Passive Voice in English Grammar
Uploaded: 2022-03-23T17:46:48.000Z
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Hello, everyone. This is Mike from Shaw English. 

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I'm going  to be teaching you about the active and passive voice in English.

Now many of  you know how to use the active voice,

but you might have a tough time switching over using the passive voice.

By the end of today's video, you're  going to understand it all very well. 

Make sure you keep watching  until the end of the video 

because there will be a quiz and some homework. 

So before we can start switching our  sentences from active to passive, 

it's very important for us to understand  the different parts of a sentence. 

We have a sentence written, 'The boy opened the door.'

which usually follows the pattern of subject verb object.

Our subject the 'doer' is 'the boy'. But what did the boy do? 

'The boy opened…' 'open' is the example of an action. 

What did the boy open? The boy opened the door. 

'the door' is the receiver or the direct object. 

So again, before we can really switch  our sentences from active to the passive, 

And the more that we understand  different parts of a sentence, 

the easier it will be to switching  active sentences to passive sentences. 

So now let's switch our active  sentence over to a passive one. 

Here's our sentence from before: 'The boy opened the door.' 

Now, we have, 'The door was opened by the boy.'

Like I mentioned earlier, for active sentences, they follow the subject verb object pattern. 

Well it's a little bit different  from the passive sentence. 

Before we had the receiver  at the end of the sentence, 

now we have the receiver in  the beginning of the sentence. 

'The door was opened…' Wow. Our verb is the same. 

Or the action is the same. But we have a 'to be' verb added on. 

'was opened' is our 'to be' verb  plus the past participle of 'open'. 

Now, it could also be these 'to be' verbs as well.

And this will change depending on the  tense that we're using in our sentence. 

We also have 'the door being opened by the boy'.

Now, the reason why we have it in brackets is because

sometimes we don't need to know who is the 'doer'.

In this sense, the boy is the 'doer'. And this 'by' helps us understand that  

Okay, so now we have examples of active sentences  that we're going to change to passive sentences.  

We learned earlier that whenever we're  changing active sentences to passive sentences, 

we are going to need to switch  our doer and our receiver. 

In this one, the doer, who is the woman, is  going to switch places with the receiver,  

who is the man, because now the man is  the focus of the sentence and will now  

Well in our sentence before,  our action is 'helped'. 

We're going to now change this  to the past participle which,  

luckily for us the past participle,  is 'helped'.

Now, we're going to add our 'to be' verb which is 'was'.

Just like we learned before, we're going to switch our doer and our receiver.

So now the girl is in the front of the sentence.

'The girl… bit…' The past participle of bit? 

'The question was answered by the student.'

In our last one, 'The teacher taught the class.' 

So earlier we changed some sentences from the active to the passive voice.

Well now, let's practice recognizing sentences in the active and passive voice.

well, I can see that the doer of my action

a sentence written in the active voice. 

Now, there are some big clues in this sentence.

Well here's our past participle  and our 'to be' verb. 

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