Name: echo speck
Uploaded: 2018-06-20T02:14:00.000Z
Duration: 14 min 30 s
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Basic quantifiers

So many of you have been asking me for a lesson

so I'm glad that I finally got it ready for you.

Now, this can be a really confusing grammar

Understanding the passive voice is important.

It's a mistake to think that it's only used

So stay with me through this entire lesson,

Before we keep going, a quick little reminder to join

You'll get to practise the 10 most common grammar

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Well there are times when you don't want to say who

Maybe you're trying to avoid responsibility

or you don't want to get your mate into trouble

or maybe you don't know who did the action or

or because actually the object is the most important

or the most interesting part of the sentence.

So that's the thing that the action is happening to

I should really first explain the active voice

are more complicated than this but we'll start simply.

The subject does the action to the object.

Now, imagine that you left for work in the morning

and there was a whole cake on the kitchen table.

I mean, you could probably guess, but you don't know.

So the solution is to use the passive voice

Now, sometimes we're just more interested

in the object of the sentence rather than the subject.

English speakers frequently use the passive voice.

But this lesson isn't about English speakers,

So we can change it to say the passive voice

Now you'll often read passive sentences in newspapers

when the journalist can't say who did something.

Maybe because they don't know who did it.

It's also used in scientific reports and legal documents

because the information has to be objective

Now some other really common passive expressions

We don't say "My mother bore me on June 23rd 1989."

When your friend tells you about his new colleague,

he'll say "He's called Tony" or "He's named Tony"

The movie Deadpool was directed by Tim Miller.

you can see the structure of the passive voice.

The be verb followed by the past participle.

I thought we only use the past participle verb

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