The Passive Voice with Get English Grammar for Beginners
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my name is Alisha and today we are going
to talk about the passive voice in
English today’s topic is how to use
passive voice and how to use get in
passive sentences so this will be a good
grammar review I think for many people
and I’m also going to talk a little bit
about some kind of details some other
ways that you can use this grammar to
make more like complex feelings in your
sentences so I hope that everybody can
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as I said today’s topic is the passive
voice the passive voice how to use the
passive voice and how to use get in
passive sentences so I’m going to show
you now and I’ll show you a few times
during today’s live lesson kind of the
the flow of topics so I’ll show you
these I have today’s white boards I use
small white boards because I’m teaching
from home so this is today’s lesson flow
first we’re going to talk about passive
and active and then we’re going to talk
about how to use get with passive voice
finally we’re going to talk about when
to use passive so this will be the flow
for today’s lesson you can of course
take a screenshot I will show this again
a bit later today too
ok so let’s get started first before we
look at the white boards I showed you I
want to do a quick review a short review
of passive grammar so first what is
passive voice but uh what is passive
voice so passive voice
often you ask me what is the difference
between passive voice and active voice
so we have these two ways of speaking
and writing so the first point here
passive voice is a style of speaking and
writing so we have passive voice or we
have active voice oops sorry I made a
type of it’s just say it focuses on the
person or thing receiving an action so
when I say it here I’m fixing it right
now
it focuses oh that’s strange I have it
in here but it’s not showing it focuses
on the person or thing receiving an
action so in passive voice the focus is
on the object of something the object of
a sentence situation I’ll show you some
examples in a minute
so passive voice you can think of it as
like the opposite of active voice in
active voice we focus on the person
or the thing acting so who is the person
doing the action that’s the focus in an
active voice sentence in a passive voice
sentence sorry I for some reason this
typo is this should say it’s not
appearing on screen it focuses on the
person or thing receiving the action so
let’s take a look at some example
sentences that use passive okay so let
us take a look at our first examples for
today passive versus active here are two
examples sentences so let’s talk about
these two first this is an active voice
sentence this is a passive voice
sentence the active sentence my dad ate
my cookie my dad ate my cookie so in
this sentence my dad is the person doing
the action yeah my dad what did my dad
do he ate my cookie this is not
something my dad would do that no hi dad
so the key here in an active voice
sentence is the subject is the focus so
the subject is my dad in this case
however in a passive voice sentence it
would look like this
my cookie was eaten my cookie was eaten
so here the object so in other words the
object object means the thing that
received the action are the thing that
receives the action is the focus in this
sentence we don’t see my dad at all we
could say yes my cookie was eaten by my
dad yes that’s also correct but it’s
also very common to see just this my
cookie was eaten so the focus is on the
object the thing that received the
action so this is the difference between
active and passive sentences active
sentence has focused on the person or
the thing doing the action passive has
focus on the thing receiving the action
so today we’re going to practice making
and practicing when to use these as well
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I have I’ve made this diagram and some
example sentences that you can use when
you want to change an active sentence to
a passive sentence many of you have
asked me how do I change active to
passive what do I do
so I made this if you have watched my
previous live stream about passive voice
this will look very familiar to you but
I updated it with some new examples and
we’re going to use this a bit today so
let’s practice together okay first let’s
look at an active sentence structure so
this is how we make a basic active voice
sentence in English yeah I think many of
you recognize this subject-verb-object
yeah SVO subject-verb-object
is a basic active voice sentence in
English for example my boss sent an
email subject my boss verb sent object
and
my boss sent an email or we ate all of
the snacks we ate all of the snacks or
he has fixed my computer so these are
all active voice sentences so we’re
focusing on the person in this case in
all of these examples it’s a person
doing the action yeah my boss or we or
he we focus on the person that’s doing
the action so how do we change an active
voice sentence to a passive voice what’s
the deal hmm so here you’ll notice this
is basically we have a subject again
here but what you do when you want to
change an active voice to a passive
voice sentence is move that’s it’s hard
to see maybe here but move your object
so the object is at the end of your
active voice sentence move your object
to the beginning of your passive
sentence so that means your object here
becomes your subject after your subject
use the to be verb so what’s important
here is you as B but make sure
please use be in the same tense as the
active voice sentence so here for
example I’ve used scent which is past
tense 8 is also past tense has fixed is
present perfect tense so here we need to
make sure we use past tense past tense
present perfect tense as well so please
change your B verb to match the tense of
this verb finally we finish it with the
past participle form of the verb so and
this is the same verb the vocabulary
word is the same but we need to change
the form of the verb so this is
something you have to study
unfortunately so when you study your
verbs study verb conjugations you’ll
study the past participle verb forms you
can google a list
of verb forms of past participle list if
you want so let’s look at how these
change for example my boss sent an email
changes to an email was sent
now again yes you can say an email was
sent by my boss that is also correct but
there are many cases where it’s not
necessary or we don’t want to include by
my boss or this one we ate all of the Oh
snacks I wrote all of the cookies this
was my previous example sentence but
this should say all of the snacks my
subject now cookies is plural so please
note this you might find this sometimes
so yes my subject is singular here like
we ate or rather I’m sorry I shouldn’t I
shouldn’t say that please note that this
subject here needs to match your verb
here all of the cookies were eaten so
this is a plural subject we must work
here finally my computer has been fixed
this changes from has fixed has fixed
now has been fixed so please note that
this changes so this is how we change
active voice to passive voice
someone says if we have AI CH 0 I hope
that this answers your question on
YouTube when we transform active to
passive maybe I don’t know maybe I’m
missing part of that question oh oh oh
oh sorry I missed like half the chat
does the tense change and if so how do
we do I hope that this answers your
question about changing tense between
active and passive the tents of your be
verb changes so I hope this answers that
question Oh yogi so this is how we
change active to passive yes the be verb
here changes and you need to use the
past participle form of the verb all
right cool
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questions on Facebook now can we use
passive voice in present my cookies are
eaten every day yes you can I wonder is
that a situation my cookies are eaten
every day yes you can you can say like
my mailbox is checked every day by
someone I don’t know who yeah you can
totally absolutely you
present-tense example so I tend we tend
to use it I feel a little bit more
perhaps in like past tense situations as
we’re going to practice in just a minute
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are talking about passive voice let’s
take a look at where we are in today’s
lesson flow I’ve just talked about
passive and active right here we just
finished this part now I’m going to talk
about how to use get with passive voice
this is a very common question I have
seen from you so we’re going to cover
this next let’s go okay alright so how
to use get with passive voice what is
going on here many of you have asked me
this but what is going on okay so how do
you get in passive voice what what we
use get this is first just what what is
happening here why when I like we
sometimes hear native speakers using
in these structures why so we use get in
passive sentences to create a feeling of
surprise it communicates something
unexpected often it also has a negative
feel so this is a lot of information I
know so again using get in a passive
sentence in place of the be verb gives
this feeling of something that’s like a
surprise or something that we didn’t
expect to happen or it can also be
something that is bad do it depends on
the context so let’s compare these two
sentences I was accepted to a good
university I was accepted to a good
university this sentence is 100% correct
totally fine
grammar great everything is good also I
got accepted to a good university I got
accepted to a good university what’s the
difference here the difference here is
in the second example sentence I’ve used
got instead of was so I replaced was
with God this is because I want to
communicate a feeling of surprise or a
feeling that something unexpected
happened so this sentence I got accepted
communicates surprise the sentence I was
accepted to a good university sounds
just kind of like a fact it’s not wrong
it’s a perfectly fine sentence but God
communicates that surprise a lot more so
this is this is how we use got in place
of the be verb okay
let’s go to the next part I’m looking
for your questions in the chat I don’t
see anything yet okay let’s go to the
next part here to use to use also your
chat homework those of you in the chat
right now this is your homework I’m
gonna explain them
to use this just replace B with get in
your passive sentence so let’s practice
this here finish this sentence so
remember this sentence needs to be
something surprising or unexpected or
negative so let’s finish this sentence I
got plus a past participle verb so try
to make a passive sentence with got in
this case I’m making I’m suggesting you
use a past tense example so try to
finish this sentence I got something so
I got accepted to a good university or I
got awoke in by an earthquake this
morning something like that something
that’s really like surprising or
unexpected or maybe a little bit
negative
some examples are coming in some okay I
don’t see anything on Facebook yet
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it has been disabled because there were
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unfortunately so I got confused okay I
got confused is a good start yeah so
give us some more information I got
confused about the lesson so that one is
a little bit more like that you saw at M
hmm it’s a slightly different use of get
that’s that’s a the use of get to mean
become yeah a lot of you are using got a
lot of you a lot of you are using got to
mean became here like I got drunk this
morning that means I became drunk okay I
got fired by my boss great example
sentence handsome fan that was great
great great I got messaged by a
strangers as Edgard very very nice good
okay excellent example some of you some
of you are saying also just you’re using
got to mean received so like for someone
on Facebook Jorge said I got my college
degree yesterday that sentence is
correct but that is not a passive voice
sentence that is a simple past tense
sentence which means I received my
college degree yesterday so the key I
got past participle verb I got past
participle verb mmm so I got past
participle verb so make sure that this
part here I got accepted to something or
I got hit by a car so that’s something
that’s not very good something that
happened to you that was unexpected or
surprising hmm so this some many of you
are putting a noun here that is
incorrect
for this grammar I got noun means I
received noun so that’s a correct
sentence when you want to communicate I
received something I received an
assignment I received a gift great
sentence but that is not today’s grammar
mmm so I got my other example let’s
bring it I got hit by a car oh my gosh I
got surprised yeah by someone good good
good good okay I got shocked ah I would
I got shocked we would say I got shocked
mmm we don’t really use this so much for
our own emotions because it’s like
something we can control
so that is probably something that we
would not say I got frustrated that’s
kind of saying like I became frustrated
okay okay so maybe this is a good point
to consider because there are many of
you who are sending example sentences
that are correct but not today’s grammar
there for your homework maybe I have
made a lesson another live lesson about
how to use got it’s all about I think
there are three different
uses of God it’s today’s grammar and
it’s the received grammar and the became
grammar so please google are not even
Google please go to the English class
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get that lesson so I see many of you are
making correct sentences but they are
different from today’s grammar I would
recommend you review that lesson review
the how to use GOC or three three uses
of god I think it’s called so please
take a look at that for your homework
for this week
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next part though Oh someone said I got
caught cheating good good good good
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the last part of today’s lesson in case
you missed it I will show you again so
that you can see today’s lesson flow I
started here with passive versus active
voice and then talked about how to use
get with passive voice now we’re going
to talk about when to use passive when
to use passive so this will be the last
part of our lesson for today alright
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okay some people I got fired by my boss
is that true oh my gosh
Edgard says I got lost in my house
really okay good example of everybody
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there I says I got fired last month oh I
hope that’s not true I got accepted by
English class 101 good okay nice example
is everybody okay let’s go to the last
part too lastly today is when to use
passive when should we use passive so
many people are like why do I even need
to learn passive voice like can’t I just
use active voice all the time like well
you can but like there are some really
good reasons to use passive and like we
use passive voice often like all the
time so please study passive ok first
when you don’t know the person who acted
when you don’t know the person who acted
you can use passive that means the
person who did some action is unknown or
they’re not important so we’ll talk
about this later for example my car was
broken into my car was broken into by
who we don’t know we don’t know though
so we use passive to talk about that my
car was broken into or I chose this
vocabulary word specifically for now she
has been diagnosed with the flu
diagnosed to diagnose this is a good
this is a vocabulary point I chose for
this lesson today to diagnose means to
decide someone’s illness to decide
someone’s sickness so when you feel sick
and you go to the doctor and the doctor
checks you and the doctor says you have
the flu are you caught a cold or
something that’s called diagnosing to
diagnose someone is to decide or to
determine the type of illness so she has
been diagnosed with the flu in this case
so who diagnosed we can guess probably
the doctor but we don’t know exactly who
the doctor is maybe
so we use passive voice when you don’t
know the person who acted we don’t know
the person who did this thing okay
second second reason you should know
passive and that it is used when the
object is more important so for example
like the result of research or like a
problem with a customer or something
like that so we want to know about the
results we want to know the outcome we
don’t care so much about who did
something the focus is on like the end
at the end of the situation for example
the problem was resolved the problem was
resolved okay or reports were provided
to all staff so here the problem was
resolved by whom it’s not important it’s
just a problem at work or whatever was
resolved resolved means fixed so fixed
fixed and resolved their similar fixed
we use with machines generally resolved
we use for problems between people okay
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Mello welcome cool ok
reports were provided to all staff again
by whom it’s not important in this case
we want to focus on reports so we use
passive voice to do that reports were
provided to all staff ok finally finally
finally another reason to use passive
voice is when you want to hide someone’s
actions so so this is very useful you
will hear little kids do this actually
and you can use it too you can use
passive voice to hide things or like to
not say details sometimes sometimes it
is useful so for example your coffee got
drunk by whom so this means like another
way to say this is someone drinks his
desk got moved so
his desk we don’t know or we don’t want
to say so we use passive so these are
very like gentle examples of how to hide
in passive voice but if you pay
attention to like the news politicians
like to use passive voice to avoid
responsibility you’ll notice you’ll also
see it in like business like corporate
letters especially like corporate
apologies you’ll see it in those
situations too so look for this this is
really sneaky so sometimes I’ll notice
friends will use passive voice when
they’re trying to hide nicely you so you
can use this yeah so some examples are
coming in now the chat was deactivated
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- all staff no staff is an uncountable
noun we do not say 1 like 1
we don’t say uh staff we say a staff
member member is countable staff no to
all staff staff is uncountable ok
our project has been completed good my
bike was stolen last week good my laptop
got stolen good ok no it’s just free for
all example sentences coming at me okay
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documents were submitted to all faculty
faculty members maybe or two to all
faculties yeah that’s true faculty can’t
in some cases is can be used as a
countable noun to refer to different
departments in a school good examples
everybody can we use active voice for no
subject well there has to be a subject
somewhere do you have an example ok I
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