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Subido el 28 de junio de 2023 por Rosa Maria C.

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Vídeo en inglés sobre la formación y uso de la voz pasiva.

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The passive voice, basic information, what is it, when is it used, how is it conjugated? 00:00:00
To understand the passive voice, we need to compare it to the active voice, and to be 00:00:12
aware of the fact that the first element that we utter in a sentence is our focus of attention. 00:00:16
So in a sentence such as Peter made a cake, an active voice sentence, the subject is the 00:00:22
agent, the performer of the action, and it is our main focus, what we care about. 00:00:27
That is followed by a verb, made, and an object, which is the person or thing that directly 00:00:32
receives the action of the verb. 00:00:37
It is a sentence such as this with a direct object that we can turn into the passive voice. 00:00:39
On the contrary, in the passive voice, there is a change in the order of elements of our 00:00:47
sentence. 00:00:53
One of the first elements that we have is the person or the thing that receives the 00:00:54
action of the verb, what was previously our object, but is now our main focus of attention. 00:00:58
So in a cake was made by Peter, we care about the cake itself or the baking, not who actually 00:01:03
baked it. 00:01:09
That passive subject is followed by a passive verb, and then at the end of the sentence, 00:01:11
the agent may be mentioned, but it's not necessary. 00:01:17
If we choose to do so, we use preposition by. 00:01:20
So when is it used? 00:01:26
So since the point of the passive voice is to focus on the action and its consequences 00:01:28
rather than the agent, it is used many times when the agent is unknown or obvious, such 00:01:34
as in this sentence, somebody cleaned the room, or the cleaner cleaned the room is less 00:01:42
likely to be used than the room was clean, since we know the room was cleaned by a person 00:01:47
and that was probably a cleaner. 00:01:52
It is used as well when we want deliberately to avoid the agent, when we intentionally 00:01:57
want not to mention the agent, sometimes, for instance, a mistake was made is a sentence 00:02:04
that has been used by many politicians in the past when we want to admit that something 00:02:11
went wrong, but that they don't know who is to be blamed. 00:02:15
They want to say that they were to blame for it. 00:02:19
If you follow this link, you can see some of the examples in real life. 00:02:22
So how is it formed? 00:02:28
Let's take a sentence in the active voice, such as the postman delivers the mail. 00:02:30
We need to change the order of elements. 00:02:34
The first element to be used is our previous object, the receiver of the action, the mail. 00:02:37
Then we change the verb into the passive voice. 00:02:43
A passive voice verb has two elements. 00:02:46
To begin with, the verb to be, conjugated in whichever tense we need to. 00:02:48
So delivers is a present simple, so we need a present simple is. 00:02:54
And then the participle of the verb, in this case, the lexical verb. 00:03:00
The verb is to deliver, so we say delivered, and our passive voice verb is delivered. 00:03:05
And finally, if we want to mention the agent, we use preposition by and place it at the 00:03:12
end of the sentence by the postman. 00:03:16
So our passive voice sentence would be, the mail is delivered by the postman. 00:03:18
A few notes. 00:03:25
So if by any chance our sentence in the active voice starts with no one or nobody, in the 00:03:27
passive voice, it becomes a negative sentence, such as is the case here. 00:03:34
No one turned the light would become the light was not turned on. 00:03:38
Now, when we have a phrasal verb, when we have a verb with a preposition followed by 00:03:44
a preposition in the active voice, that preposition remains behind the verb in the passive voice. 00:03:49
So they talked about the issue becomes the issue was talked about. 00:03:56
Let us have a look at some tenses in the passive voice. 00:04:03
This is a chart with tenses in the active and the passive voice. 00:04:07
As you can see, there are two elements in our passive voice tenses. 00:04:12
To begin with, the verb to be conjugated, and then the participle. 00:04:16
Let's take, for instance, the future simple. 00:04:20
If I say I will do it in the active voice, then I need to conjugate the verb to be in 00:04:23
the future simple. 00:04:29
So my passive verb would start with will be instead of will do. 00:04:30
And then finally, I use the participle done. 00:04:35
So it becomes it will be done. 00:04:39
Here you have some more complex tenses. 00:04:43
Notice the fact that continuous tenses are not generally used in the passive voice. 00:04:47
So that's all for now. 00:04:55
I think that now you're ready to start practicing. 00:04:58
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Autor/es:
Rosa María Cortijo Castilla
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