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Video about the Passive Voice in English. For Bilingual ESO 4
Well, let's explain the passive voice. On page 226 of our book, we can see the following theory on the passive voice. We form the passive using the verb to be, I'm just here, and the past participle.
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Guys, you need to have clear the irregular verbs in the third column because many past participle verbs or forms belong to the irregular verbs.
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You know that the regular one is ended in "-ity", obviously.
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We have here in this chart, I'm not going to pay attention to this for a long time, different tenses, present simple, continuous, present perfect, etc.
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And this way, we can see how the passive is formed with the verb to be in one of these tenses and the past participle of the verb used.
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For example, still stolen, hold held, released, taken, etc.
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The passive is used, I'm just here, to focus attention.
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And this is the key point when talking about the passive voice.
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focus attention on the person or thing affected by the action rather than on the agent that is
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the doer of the action the doer the person who does something because if we want to focus the
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attention on the doer on the agent we use either the active voice active or if we use the passive
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if we are interested in the agent we will use the preposition by and this way let's see the example
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Sue and Mark were brought up by their grandparents this way we create what is
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called the agents in Spanish el complemento a gente by their
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grandparents when we talk about the instrument not the agent rather the
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instrument used by the agent to do the action we use the preposition with he
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He was hit on the head with a vase.
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Yeah, we are not interested.
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On the agent, can you see any by phrase?
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You can't.
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But we see the instrument with a vase.
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And now, listen, pay attention to these four cases.
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The agent is not usually included.
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One, when it is clear from the context who the agent is.
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Colin was arrested for dangerous driving.
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Do we need to say that he was arrested by the police?
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obviously no when we don't know the agent or the agent is an important my car was stolen yesterday
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afternoon who stole the car the thieves but we don't know who specifically the important thing
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is that the car was stolen actually an official notices to avoid using you food may not be
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consumed on the premises yeah obviously you're not going to say food may not be consumed on the
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premises by you indeed we don't use the agent with any personal pronoun by you
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by him by them okay and number four when the agent in is people in general Texas
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is known as a lone star state so far so good
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And well, let's go. Wait a minute. Let's go to one more thing, which is infinitives after passives. An infinitive can be used after the passive. I'm just reading of certain verbs. I repeat certain verbs.
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now we will see which verbs we are talking about to talk about widely held beliefs or opinions
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keep this um keep this in mind okay let me see if i can do it anyway widely believes or opinions
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All right. Well, verbs used in this way include belief, consider, expect, feel, now, report, think, understand. And you can see here the example. Let me do it. Yeah. All right. Thank you.
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You can see here some examples. The vase is thought to be over 200 years old. Is thought is verb to be thought past participle and infinitive. In this case the infinitive is to be. But here the president is verb to be expected past participle infinitive to arrive at 9.30 a.m.
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That is, is it important who believes or who expects, in this case, the president to arrive?
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No, the important thing is that the president will arrive, or the president is expected to arrive.
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In Spanish, we translate it as, se espera que el presidente llegue a las nueve y media de la mañana.
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Se espera, eso en español es pasiva refleja, ¿sí?
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Pasiva refleja, o a veces impersonal, depende.
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El presidente es esperado, ¿no?
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Que llegue.
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Se sonaría muy extraño en nuestra lengua.
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Alternatively, at that clause can be used after it plus the passive of this verse.
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It is thought that the vase is over 500 years old or it is expected that the president will arrive at 9.30 a.m.
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The president is expected to arrive or it is expected that the president will arrive.
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Both are okay.
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obviously as I have we have already seen when talking about for example reported
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speech or modal verbs especially with modal verbs now we see again here the
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perfect infinitive remember all the perfect verse in in English and Spanish
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also include half so infinitive which is perfect half infinitive always have
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never has or had have without to obviously and past participle perfect
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infinitive is used to refer to the past for example 15 people are known to have
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died in the accident they died some time in the past ten years ago five minutes
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ago one week ago I don't know yeah in Spanish se cree o se sabe se sabe que
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murieron 15 personas en el accidente, así lo traduciríamos al castellano, or it is known
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that 15 people died in the accident, here you see the different structure, it is known that clause
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15 people subject and the verb in this case in passing in the accident, so with this little
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theory about the passive we are ready to do the exercises, thank you very much.
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- Idioma/s:
- Autor/es:
- Oscar García Valero
- Subido por:
- Oscar G.
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento
- Visualizaciones:
- 33
- Fecha:
- 11 de febrero de 2023 - 19:15
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Centro:
- IES ISAAC ALBÉNIZ
- Duración:
- 07′ 19″
- Relación de aspecto:
- 1.78:1
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- 17.73 MBytes
