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ENGLISH GRAMMAR TUTORIAL: Are you familiar with the passive voice?

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🌟🔍 Are you familiar with the passive voice?

🌟That’s the literary equivalent of a magic trick!
👉We use it to redirect attention from the author to the action itself. It is advisable to use the passive voice in our business emails and legal documents.

🌟Let’s see if we can’t find ways to include this in our stories!

👉Learn the difference between active and passive voice in English grammar in this quick lesson.

👉The video explains that the active voice makes your writing stronger and clearer, with the subject performing the action (e.g., “Chester kicked the ball”).

👉In contrast, in the passive voice, the subject receives the action (e.g., “The ball was kicked by Chester”).

👉The passive voice isn’t wrong, it’s useful when you want to sound more polite, focus on the action itself, or highlight the recipient rather than the doer. Examples from famous literature show how passive voice can shape style or emphasis in your sentences.

🌟Watch to master when and how to use the passive voice for more effective communication!

https://youtu.be/VdNkGOgdbw4?si=2YPy6EwfO_ezV8op

New video about the Passive Voice in English!

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🔔New video about the Passive Voice in English!

🔔What is the passive voice?

➡️In general, the active voice makes your writing stronger, more direct, and, you guessed it, more active. The subject is something, or it does the action of the verb in the sentence. With the passive voice, the subject is acted upon by some other performer of the verb. (In case you weren’t paying attention, the previous two sentences use the type of voice they describe.)

➡️But the passive voice is not incorrect. In fact, there are times when it can come in handy. Read on to learn how to form the active and passive voices, when using the passive voice is a good idea, and how to avoid confusing it with similar forms.

🔔The difference between active and passive voice

➡️While tense is all about time references, voice describes whether the grammatical subject of a clause performs or receives the action of the verb.

➡️Here’s the formula for the active voice:
[subject]+[verb (performed by the subject)]+[optional object]
Chester kicked the ball.

➡️In a passive voice construction, the grammatical subject of the clause receives the action of the verb. So the ball from the above sentence, which is receiving the action, becomes the subject. The formula:
[subject]+[some form of the verb to be]+[past participle of a transitive verb]+[optional prepositional phrase]
The ball was kicked by Chester.

➡️That last little bit—“by Chester”—is a prepositional phrase that tells you who the performer of the action is. But even though Chester is the one doing the kicking, he’s no longer the grammatical subject. A passive voice construction can even drop him from the sentence entirely:
The ball was kicked.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdNkGOgdbw4&t=8s

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