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Okay, today we're going to talk about the passive voice.

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Before we speak about the passive voice, we must touch on the active voice.

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So, the active voice formula is the subject, then the verb, then the object.

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So, an example of this could be, I make a cake.

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I is the subject. It could be he, it could be she, it could be I.

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Make is obviously the verb and the object is the cake. I make a cake.

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Now to turn that into a passive sentence, we need to move these around.

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So, the passive form of the sentence would be, a cake is made.

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And if you'd like, we could add on, by me, because that would be the subject.

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Now, a cake is made, the object is first, then the verb, and the subject is at the end.

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or in some cases the subject is not even included.

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We use the passive voice for when the subject is not known or important.

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The importance of using passive voice is on the action.

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so for example a bike was stolen okay we don't know who stole the bike all we know is that the

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bike is stolen and that's the important thing here is a chart with the tense the active phrase

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and the passive phrase. The passive is made with the auxiliary verb to be and

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the past participle of the verb. Just go over what we've learned. A passive

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sentence consists of the subject, the verb to be in the correct tense, the past

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participle of the verb needed and sometimes the agent is needed. Okay, here

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three examples the novel was read by mum in one day the film wasn't liked by

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anyone the windows had been broken in all these examples we could have taken

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out the the agent okay and you can see that the object has become the subject

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This may seem quite complicated, but once you've learned it, it's quite easy.

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Just remember, we tend to use the passive voice for when we want to concentrate on the action rather than the person or object carrying out the action.

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Okay?