Thursday, June 25, 2015

Passive Voice, tips

When you are learning new grammar structures the first step is learn the grammar structure and try to memorize them. Also, you can see examples in sentences but I think that is a good practice to see movies, soup operas or TV shows and try to identify when they use the Passive Voice.

In the following video you can see examples of Passive Voice uses in some movies. You will see that the intention of the speaker is focusing in the receiver or the result of the action. Also, you will notice that you can use this tense when you do not know who the agent of the action is or you think that is not important to mention it.


Is common to find the Passive Voice in Academic publications, textbooks and Scientific Blogs where the intention of the author is focusing in the result of the action. Also, the encyclopedias, advertisements, news headlines and reports use the Passive Voice to give an impersonal meaning to the message that they want to communicate.


Finally, when you use Passive Voice you have to use transitive verbs to form this tense.


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