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Lesson 4a – The Passive – English Grammar

Topic: The Passive Voice. This is an introduction to the passive in two parts. We talk about what the passive is, how it’s formed, and why it’s used. Level: high intermediate to advanced.

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25 Responses to “Lesson 4a – The Passive – English Grammar”

  1. thank you very much my teacher

  2. thank you

  3. SweethomeAlabama44 on December 24th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    Yeah very good lesson. Altough i’m french, I understood everything :) .
    Thx,
    is explained more clearly in English
    ( Sorry for my poor english )

  4. you are awesome i love u

  5. thank you very much beauty !! greetings from peru !!

  6. You make it really easy to understand! ^-^
    Honestly, you’re way better than our teacher =)
    Thanks for your help.

  7. My pleasure. It’d be somtehing like this:

    1. The purchase was decided to be held off (on) by the group.
    2. The trip was decided to be taken by them in the morning. (or BWds)
    3. Tina’s report will be presented by her at the meeting.
    4. The girl was scratched by the cat.
    5. A path of rubble was left by The Torondo.
    6. This exercise will make you. (wll?)
    7. Your child made the awful mess.
    8. My editor wrote the article.
    9. Jhon chose Tim to be her date. (is Jhon a girl?)

    Ok, that was fun.

  8. hi could u change these sentences into passive to active or active to passive.

    1.the group decided to hold off on the purchase.
    2.they decided to take the trip in the morning.
    3 teena will present her report at the meeting.
    4 the cat scratched the girl.
    5. the torondo left a path of rubble.
    6. you will be made wll by this exercise.
    7. the awful mess was made by your child.
    8. the article was written by my editor.
    9 tim was chosen by jhon to be her date.

  9. Very good!

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  10. thanks very much

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  12. Thank you very much for your explanation. Greetings from Spain.

  13. PASSIVE:
    Indians that are not mingled with…
    (BE + past participle)

    ACTIVE:
    Indians that mingle with…

    The passive sounds odd here. I’d say:
    Indians that do not mingle (or “interact”) with…

  14. Duynam172251990 on December 25th, 2009 at 2:01 am

    hello Mrs JenniferESL.I’m duynam I’m from vietnam.thanks you verry much.i’ll try to learn

  15. Could you please tell me if the following sentence is in tha passive voice?

    Indians that are not mingled with other nations hold well nigh to their native language and speech.

    Thanks in advance!!!!

  16. Great work. I really appreciate your help.

  17. Muchas gracias Jen saludos desde Chile .. :)

  18. Thank you so much Jennefer. I am a volunteer teacher in korea. I think I can use this videos in my class teaching my korean students.

  19. agreed, you’re a great teacher!

  20. hi jennyfer I´m from colombia and these videos have been a great help, please continue with more and more you teach relly good. thanks…

  21. hi jennifer i’m from thailand
    thank you so much for help
    my english is better..
    now i try to listeninng and grammar.

    thank you again..

  22. Really interesting material, Greetings from Mexico

  23. just awesome! Thanks a lot Jennifer! lovely greets from TURKEY!

  24. you are an excellent teacher I wish I could be like you!

  25. Should be ‘an art exhibition’ rather than
    ‘an art exhibit’, right?

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