hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about American English grammar
are you ready let's begin we're going to talk about passive and active you might
have what we would say is a passive voice and an active voice when we speak
now this means the construction of the sentence both when you write out the
sentence they both mean the same thing but the sentences are put together
differently sometimes with the same words two different ways to say the same
thing but we need to understand it first we're going to talk about passive simple
present what is passive what is passive is the simple present which is M is r
plus a past participle do you remember what a past participle is think about
the word go we have go went gone go went gone the past participle for go is gone
okay we have the word taken take took take it the past participle take we have
made made made exceptions English right the past participle for make is made all
right now here we are simple present simple present means now my house is
made of wood my house is made of wood we have is is simple present made as
participial okay sentence number one sentence number two
in this sentence our car was taken to the repair shop our car was taken to the
repair shop okay now we're talking in this simple past okay this is something
that happened before now in the past it's over it's done our car was taken
out was was is a simple past taken is a past participle so we have these plus a
past participle we're talking about the passive now let's take a look at the
active voice let's do a little in-depth work here on comparing passive and
active now we talked about passive we've got that one down but let's look how
passive and active match up or should we say don't match up but they say the same
thing here we have blue for passive we have green for active this is the
present this is the past the bus is driven every week that's the passive the
active we're saying pretty much the same thing he drives the bus every week okay
here we've got the bus but if we go to active we need to move the bus over here
we go down here for the past we have blue passive the bus was driven last
week active in the past he drove the bus last week okay now here we talked about
is for passive we talked about was for passive
and we also talked about we need a past participle for the passive here's our
past participle driven dry drove driven driven down here we're using the word
drives which isn't the past participle here a game driven here we're using
drove which is a simple past passive and active we compare them I hope you
understand them better now and when you're going through your English
looking at sentences reading speaking trying to put together sentences keep in
mind when you get confused the way some sentences are worded remember you're
saying almost the same thing and you can go between the passive and the active
the activism right or wrong I mean it's right it isn't wrong and the passive it
isn't wrong Ben's on how you use them that concludes this lesson thank you for
watching this video and I look forward to seeing you at our next lesson goodbye
for now