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 present continuous passive we're looking at the
passive again we talked a lot about the passive and the active in our last
lesson now we're changing this a little bit and we're talking about the present
continuous passive we're also going to touch on the active and we're going to
compare this to the present perfect passive the present perfect passive now
let's take a look at this if we're going to use the present continuous passive
now sentence in blue is passive the sentence in green is active for
comparison down here it's the same idea except this the present perfect passive
okay and active now here the key feature is that we need to make sure we have in
is or are being here you see the words are being so for the present continuous
passive an example sentence the dishes are being washed very simple the dishes
are being washed we have the word Dean in there now let's go down to the active
how is this going to be different she is could be he is they are but she is
washing the dishes she is washing the dishes the dishes are being washed
they're essentially saying the same thing except here we've got a little
more definition for who is doing it now uh dishes being washed here we've got
wash wash dishes are up here dishes are over here
a different structure of the sentence again as we talked in the last lesson
let's go down to the present perfect passive blue is passive now for the
present perfect we need to make sure that we have the words has or have been
inserted the dishes have been washed have been has or have them have been the
dishes have been washed now we go to the active voice she has washed the dishes
washed up here we have washing she has she is some differences to pick out we
have the dishes are the dishes have have been our beam we're here we have washed
and washed where we have washed there's washing okay do you see the differences
between the present continuous passive and the present perfect passive okay
that concludes this lesson thank you for watching this video and I look forward
to seeing you in our next lesson thank you goodbye for now