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Hello everyone! Welcome again to our English class. Today we're going to revise
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the way we form the passive and we're going to focus on the passive for two
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tenses, the present simple and the past simple. What we have to know about English verbs in
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general is that we've got two forms, two voices. The active voice, the active
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voice and the passive voice. In the active voice, the subject, in this case I,
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it's the person that carries out the action, the person that causes the action.
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I posted the letter, I did something, I carry out the action of posting the
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letter on Monday. However, in the passive voice the subject, in this case the
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letter does not carry out the action. The subject receives the action. The letter
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was posted on Monday. In other words, somebody posted the letter on Monday. We
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know or we say what happens to the subject but we don't say who or what
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performs the action. The structure of the passive or the way we form the
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passive it's basically the verb to be in different the different tenses and the
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past participle of the main verb the past participle is an ED form of regular
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verbs and the third column of the lists of irregular verbs in your book if I'm
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not mistaken on pages 138 and 139 you've got a list of irregular verbs. Last week
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we talked about them. Last week when we saw the past simple and past continuous
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we or I reminded you that you had to know your regular verbs. In that case it
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was the second column but as you can see now we have to know about the third
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column too. So again it's up to you to revise them in case you think you don't
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know your regular verbs. Like we said at the beginning, today we are going to
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focus on the present simple, the passive in the present simple and the passive in
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the past simple so here you have pairs of sentences active passive active
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passive in present and in past so how do we know or what the difference if you
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look at this sentence this sentence in the active voice is a sentence in the
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present because the verb is in the present I write letters every day so how
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do I know that these other sentence which is a passive sentence is in the
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present simple because the verb to be is in the present simple letters are
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written every day the same happens for the past simple here we have a sentence
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an active sentence in the with a verb in the past she wrote a letter yesterday by
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the way irregular and then we have a passive sentence with the verb to be in the past simple
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so therefore this sentence is a passive sentence in the past simple usually when we use the passive
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we we tend to use the passive because the person who carries out the action
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is unknown or unimportant or obvious etc so we don't normally mention
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that person who carries out the action we don't normally say that but if we want to say i mean
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and obviously we don't say it if it's somebody or if it's um um a pronoun but if we do want to say
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who carried out um the the action uh something if it's something unusual if it's something
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i don't know like in this case because we want to mention it for some reason and i have father or
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we need to mention it like here or like here in some sentences
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where the meaning would be lost if we didn't mention it. What we have to
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remember is that part of the sentence which is called the agent is introduced
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by the preposition. Now we're going to look at this example more in detail
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because it represents what steps we have to follow when we are turning an active
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sentence into a passive sentence. So let's look at it. Leslie took this
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photograph yesterday. This is an active sentence in the present. This photograph
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was taken by Leslie yesterday. It's the same sentence saying the same basically
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the same thing but in the passive okay so what steps do you have to follow when
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we are turning or when you are turning an active sentence into the passive
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first you have to look for the object of the active sentence this case this
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photograph is the object why do you need to look for the object because the
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object will turn into the subject in the passive sentence step number two you
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have to look at the verb in order to identify its tense to go to our example
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we look at them the verb which is sorry chook we can see that it is a verb in
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the past simple and we have to do that because it affects the way or the tense
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of the verb to be will be in if the verb in the active voice is in the past
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simple the verb to be is in the past simple the way remember that it has to
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concord with the subject in person and number this is a singular subject so
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the verb to be will be was so step number three see if I can go back to
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this yeah what's the third step you have to do and I like to separate this really
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separately. You've got to write the main verb in the past participle form.
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Again, that's it. The main verb was took. To take. The past participle of the verb
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to take is taken and finally the step number four is optional sometimes when I
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sometimes it is compulsory but it won't always appear we've just talked about it
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before if you need to mention the agent it has to be mentioned it'll be
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introduced by the preposition by but remember that it is not obligatory always
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to say or what or who carried out the action it's very common to see in people
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who are learning English write sentences like my... I'm gonna write it down here so you can
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see my wallet was stolen I was taken see by somebody this is very silly okay
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because we wouldn't say by somebody at all we can say though my wallet was
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taken. That's correct, perfectly correct sentence in the passive. Finally, I'm
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gonna erase this so you can see what comes below. You also, if you want or you
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need, if there are other complements, you add them afterwards. This is basically
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So as usual you have to do some practice and if you do have any
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question I will be available in the video call or via message or you can ask
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the questions in class.
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- Subido por:
- Isabel F.
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- Fecha:
- 18 de octubre de 2020 - 22:10
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