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hello everyone welcome to this short video where we will learn how to form

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the passive voice in English so when we change the sentence from the active

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voice to the passive voice many things are going to change in our sentence

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first and most obvious one is that our subject in the active voice is going to

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become our agent in the passive voice as we can see in orange here so in

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In Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, Shakespeare is the subject, but in Hamlet was written by Shakespeare, Shakespeare is the agent.

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Same thing happens in the second example with the students.

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The next change we can see is that the object of the active voice is going to become our subject in the passive voice, in purple.

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Thus, in Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, Hamlet is the object,

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but in Hamlet was written by Shakespeare, Hamlet is the subject.

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Finally, the most important changes are going to take place in the verb form.

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And I say changes because there are two things to consider here.

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First, the verb in the active voice is going to be in a particular tense,

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and we are going to need the verb to be exactly in that tense.

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So, as we can see in green, in Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, wrote is in the past simple.

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And so in Hamlet was written by Shakespeare, was is to be in the past simple.

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The same thing happens in the second example, where the verb is in a future form, will do, and so we need to be in the future, will be.

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The last thing for us to do is to take the verb in the active voice and use it in the

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past participle.

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And that's it!

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That's how we form the passive voice in English.