
In this lesson, you'll see some clear examples of both the passive voice and the active voice. You'll learn:
how to form the passive voice
how to use 'by' to show who does an action
2 common reasons to use the passive voice
In this lesson, learn three new uses for the passive voice.
Processes
Sentence continuity
Politeness
In this lesson, you will learn how to form the passive voice in different forms including:
The passive voice in the past
The passive voice in continuous tenses
The passive voice in perfect tenses
The passive voice with modal verbs
After this lesson, you will be able to form the passive voice even in complex sentences with multiple objects.
Now that you can use the passive voice for so many uses and in so many ways, I'm going to give things a little twist. We are going to throw out the 'be' rule and replace it with the 'get' rule.
We still haven't discussed this one final use of the passive voice.
We can use it to report information in an interesting way. In this lesson, you'll learn:
How to write headlines and email subjects using the passive voicec
How to use passive reporting verbs
Two types of passive reporting sentences
Treat this as a final review of the passive voice. Here, we go back and look at every video from this course.
Do you get confused by sentences like these?
This house was built by my grandfather.
A job was offered to Jane by the company.
The boy got bitten by a dog.
It is well-known that plastic is harmful to the environment
That's because they all use the passive voice, a complex structure in English.
In fact, this is one of the biggest barriers to fluency for a lot of my students. Many of the adult professionals I work with have mastered active sentences in English, but are confounded by passive sentences.
That's why I've built this course. I want to finally, once an for all, clear up all the questions I've been asked over the years about using the passive voice.
Questions such as:
What is the passive voice?
Why do we use the passive voice?
Can I form the passive voice in the future? In the past?
How can I use the passive voice to be more polite?
Can I use 'get' with the passive voice?
And many, many more.
If you have ever asked any of these questions, either to a teacher or silently to yourself, then this course is GUARANTEED to clear them up.
Check out a few short comments from some of my students:
"At school, my English teacher just wrote a sentence on the board and expected me to understand. In this course I actually DO understand!" - Ben (Israel)
“My boss uses the passive voice all the time and it always confused me. I get it now.” – Xin (China)
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Who this course is for:
Intermediate and advanced English speakers who want to tackle tough grammar.
Anyone who uses English at work, on the phone, or in their daily lives.
If you are a beginner or just starting out in English, this course probably isn't for you.