24. Active Voice and Passive Voice. English Grammar
Using the idea of the agent, Yossarian the Grammarian shares his simple and infallible method for determining whether a verb is in the active or in the passive voice, and shows you how to make active verbs passive, and vice versa. You’ll be being seen by him.
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You will be being seen by many learners!
very good refresher video!!
thank you for posting these videos. you are great.
Thanks.
Perhaps, Ktalent, you could post a vid or two?
Thank YOu =)
Thank u so much … am using this information to work on my project which is due 2 day later lol
this video suckssss
i’m taking a 300 level class at my university and your short but informative lectures are helping me. thanks a bunch! =]
I agree with Ktalanet i mean no offense but no wonder that your budgets are cut
Is that the way to change all futture progressives? You just and a “being” and change the main verb to the past progressive form?
Ktalanet. This lesson is designed for advanced and grown up students. For kids and children it’s definitely boring but for us it’s too interesting. Please Mr’ mrthoth keep up the great work
Jesus! Right! These lessons mau be interesting but they are so boring!!! I can’t imagine myself preparing a lesson like this for my students. They would place me in the middle of the twon square and burn me up!!! The point is teaching not showing how much you know!
Yes!
” The board is slapped by me” . Is it passive voice?
Also if the ink is invisible, hahahahah! lol!This lesson is excellent as always!!
Cont. That is, you never say: “I haven’t clean,” but: “I haven’t cleaned.” However, your explanation made things much clearer (although I still think English could do without past participle tense…). Since “have” is the present tense, rather than the past one like “did (not)” is of “do (not),” the verb still needs to be conjugated into its past participle tense, because its auxiliary isn’t, and without something in the past tense, the sentence wouldn’t be in the past. Thank you so much! ^_^
Also, one thing that I find weird about English: In the past simple tense, when you want to make the verb negative, you don’t have to keep it in the past tense anymore. That is: “I didn’t see,” rather than: “I didn’t saw.” You mentioned that you only need to make one word go into the past tense, and that will make the whole sentence go into the past, so now I can finally understand the past participle rules, which I had previously thought to be irregular.
Anyway, my pointless rambling aside, I really love your videos. I like to think of myself as a grammar expert, but your videos have taught me some things that I didn’t know before (they don’t teach English grammar properly in schools these days, so I get most of my information from linguistic books and Wikipedia XD). For example, I always used to think of “may,” “might,” etc. as auxiliary verbs as well, but now I know that they’re modals. That really helps a lot. Thanks. ^_^
My God… There is no such thing as coincidence, is there? I checked out most of your videos yesterday at about three o’clock in the morning, and promised myself that I would watch the rest when I woke up the next day (well, earlier that morning). Now it’s the next day (earlier morning), and you’ve uploaded a new video! Even though you hadn’t updated in a whole year, you’ve uploaded a new video! On the very day that I found you out! That’s amazing! XD
Awesome lesson as usual sir. Thanks a heap