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The Passive: When, why, and how to use it
You know how to construct the passive form, but then you wonder, “why should I use this?” You use the passive to sound more interesting, impress readers (especially those grumpy IELTS and TOEFL essay graders), and sometimes because there is no other option. This lesson will tell you when, why, and how to use the passive effectively.
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Thank you very much Adam
Now I understand better the passive voice.
:)
Thank you very much. It was really great. But can you do me a favor, please? What shall I do if I want to perfectly pass the TOEFL Test?
Hi Adam. Very innteresting & useful lesson. Just one thing to mention. Why don’t you use “IT” or “THAT SODA” instead of “COCA-COLA” in the last sentence?. I mean, to repeat the name, even when it’s important it’s also repetitive. My opinion, sorry.
Bye & greets from Mendoza, Argentina.
Hi Bazanmarcelo,
You make an interesting point here. You are right that I can use ‘it’ in the last sentence, but sometimes repetition has a purpose too. In this case, i want to stress the value of the name, as a brand, and so by repeating it, I draw attention to the name’s importance.
Does that make sense?
Why The computer delivered on Saturday is incorrect. Why not “ON” is required in the sentance
Hi Sunil,
The computer delivered on Saturday isn’t correct because the computer is the subject and it can’t do the delivering. One of the main things to be careful about with passives (with any sentence actually) is to make sure that the subject CAN DO the verb. Otherwise it doesn’t make sense.
As for not using ‘on’ in the sentence, that is ok. It doesn’t change the meaning and is grammatically acceptable.
Hope that helps.
I’ve made the quiz but I thing something’s wrong. In question 10 it marks as correct the phrase: It was delivered Saturday, but,”ON” is missing. Is that correct? because it sounds like “Tarzan” speaking (we use that phrase in Argentina when somebody speaks very rudimentary”.
Thanks.
Hi Marcelo! I live in Magdalena, near La Plata.
I had the same doubt about 10 question, and I have the same problem that you, I can´t practice enough English because no one in my family to speak English.
Hi again :)
Actually, I find that one of the problems English learners have is that they are taught rules and then expect these rules to always hold. The sentence without ‘on’ is quite acceptable and not ‘tarzan-ish.’ But, you can add the ‘on’ for now. (just in case: if we plan to meet next week on Tuesday, I can easily say “See you Tuesday, or See you on Tuesday.”)
:)
Thanks.
One of the best explanation I’ve ever heard about when, why and how to use the Passive Voice. I’m very impressed with the test as wel,of course I didn’t get all the answers right; however, now it’s clear to me why, when and how to use the Passive Voice.Thanks Adam!
I thought the same bazanmarcelo, but I think as we are talking about passive voice, the only thing that really matters is the S V O. So it(subject) was (to be) delivered(verb) Saturday(object).Even though I think ‘on’ wouldn’t be replaced …
Thanks a bunch Adam. Regarding to Bazanmarcelo and Renan’s comments, I believe you’re wrong guys,”on” can be omitted in this case, and it’s perfect English. This surely cannot be done in Spanish, though.
you are such an amazing teachers please keep it up!!! and you Adam thank you so much and enjoyable lesson !!! i use to sleep in class with this lessons but now….!! c ya soon !! by!!
10 correct out of 10 Awww yeah!
Adam, you’re the greatest great!
Splendid! I’ve got flash of inspiration how sentences in English make the chain in writing.
Thanks a lot for your effort!
I like these lessons. There are fun.
It’s so helpful. Thank-you very much.
Great lesson, I finally understood!
Maybe you can record a video about the pasive like this:
I had my hair cut yesterday.
It’s confusing the meaning.
Hi Georgejolema,
Thank you. Actually, my colleague Alex has a video lesson about that. It’s the passive causative. Look at the Related Lessons to this one. But if you’re still not sure, let me know and I’ll help you out.
Thank you, Adam!
The video is interesting.
scored 9 out of 10, i made a mistake in q7. thanks Adam.
please answer my previous questions:
OK Adams, Thanks for your response. I would be grateful of you explain to me the 2 following parts of questions:
1- Vocabulary:
What are the differences between:
a- Adjourned | deferred | postpone | delay | late.
b- Dissatisfied | unsatisfied.
c- Debar | prevent | prohibit | forbid | ban | impose
d- in spite of | despite | regardless | although
2- Grammers or word formations:
What are those additives on the followings:
a- operate | operation | operative
b- victory | victorious
c- opportunity | opportunism
d- nation | national | nationality | nationalism
e- access | accessory
f- continue | continuous | continuity
g- subject | subjective |
h- ally | alliance
i- competitive | competitiveness
and so on
Hi Majed,
To be honest, this looks like it would take up the entire comment page :) Besides, there’s not much I can tell that a good dictionary can’t. The main thing to keep in mind is context, that is, where and when are these words used.
One other thing I will mention (and try to make a video about) is suffixes (-tion, -ness, -ive, etc) and prefixes (re-, un- dis-, etc.). Study these to really improve your vocab.
Does that help?
Dear Adam,
Thanks for your reply. So ignore the vocab question and advise about the second part: can I find a book listing the words alphabetically and shows the formations of each. etc :
A – access|accessory|accessible
C – continue|continuous|continuity
M – moment|momentum
N – nation|national|nationality|nationalism
Hi, anyone who is interested in the etymology of English words should visit: http://www.etymonline.com
Much information about the words mentioned before can be found there.
Thank you Adam for your excellent lesson!
Thank you very much! Your lessons are very easy to understand.
Thank you very much for this very useful lesson.
Thank you very much. I’ve never studied the passive form in a so very ineresting and useful way.
Thank you very much Adam for yuor lesson.
I got 70/100 so, for sure, I need further clarifications.
Infact I got some difficulty with the test,but mainly on Q7, to find out how many passive forms there were.
In your lesson you said the passive form is done by “to be + pp” but I can’t see, in to the paragraph, the 4 forms like that.Can you point them out?
Thank you!!!
You have one past — “was proposed”
two perfects — “has been studied”, “has been provided”
and one modal — “can both be found”
Hi Attyla,
First, be careful about the structure. It is not the verb ‘to be’ + pp. Just ‘be’+pp.
The four are:
has been studied for many years
new theory was proposed by
no concrete proof has been provided
can both be found in the paint.
thanks Adam…..it was useful…..
Hi Adam,
Thank you for your interesting and useful lesson. Now, I can use the passive voice more often, because I understtod when, why and how to use it.
Great lesson.
Hi Adam,
Thanks for your support!
Lopes – Brazil
many thanks. hope too much fro you
many thanks. hope too much from you
thanks to engvid.com – just by watching two videos, i learned useful knowledge that i should have known.
thank you it was useful lesson :)
Hi Adam could you teach us a little bit more about Passive, for example; how is used it with modals or how can i change it into a question? like when were music CDs first sold?
Hi Karem95,
I’ll see what I can do. Perhaps I’ll make a part 2.
:)
That’s exactly what I want from here.Thanks Adam.Hope to see more videos like this.
I mean”when,why and how to use it”
Interesting!!! I love it.
Thanks Adam.
Thanks Adam, great lesson.
it was a wonderful lesson, i enjoyed and corrected the quiz too…
Thanks Adam
Hi Adams, I always follow your lessons but there is a problem. I download all the lessons from this site by copying them from the temporary files of windows and I can find all of then as a single file but yours. Could you please upload your lessons as a single file you too?
Thanks.
Use firefox and ByTubeD addon.
Hi,I’m a newcomer.
Glad 2 c u.
:)
Hi there,
Welcome 2 this profitable site,
Hope u get the best through.
Kind regards;
fatiima!
thank you my teacher Adam really I have enjoyed your lessons .
Today first time I visited this site and was so impressed that became a member straight away. The grammar lessen for passive sentences was well presented. Thanks Adam for that, I loved it.
8 out of 10 not bad
Vandals were people came from Germany, an European country.
In Vth century, there were big invasions everywhere in Europe and north African.
The term “vandalize” come from Vandals, as you said, it describes barbarian destruction.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandals
Thanks Petitfelin,
Interesting :)
it is really a nice one my brother sulaimon learn a great deal from it
thanks Adam 4 the information about coca cola I didn’t know n’ 4 the class of course. good english was taught by a good teacher, 4 real.
which is correct:
the plane _____20 minutes ago
a)had landed
b)landed
c)was landind
d)has landed
The answer is B because you have a specific time in the past — 20 minutes ago.
I’m wondering about the C answer because I don’t understand it. Should there be “was landing”? If so, I’m not sure about “The plane was landing 20 minutes ago.” — in Polish language we can say something like this.
B is correct answer, because as i know, land is not used in passive
Actually, there is no “passive” answer.
a)had landed — past perfect
b)landed — simple past
c)was landing — past continuous
d)has landed — present perfect
Hi MaiHuongNguyenThi,
Actually, The plane was landed safely by the pilot would be ok. Unnecessary, but ok.
:)
Hi Mamuana,
b is correct because of the specific time. However, Morfik is on to something: If there were more information I could make a case for c. But, being that all we have is what you have given us, b is the only correct answer.
Hi Teacher!
Thank you very much by lessons you have provided for us, it has particularly been a great help for me because I’m seeking to learn English.
9/10.. yeah, i am surprised :)… thanks for lesson
It was great! Thank you very much! Your lessons are very good.
Good lesson!. See ya
goooood
ooo I got 8 correct out of 10 npt bad ;) thank you man!! ;)
I’m an English Teacher myself…and I have to say that the way you put it was impressive…keep doing it …
Thanks Marco. :0
Pretty good Thx you very much
Very interesting and the teaching so good.
I have two questions:
One question is about the sentence from the vid:
“He did A. C wasn’t done until he had completed B.”
Adam, why did you add “had”?
The other question is about the difference between (be) + pp and (be) + adjective with -ed ending — how to distinguish when we are dealing with passive and when with an adjective?
“He did A. He then did B and finally he did C” It’s similar with the sentence: “He did B. C was not done until he HAD completed B”.
these sentences mean that B finished then he did C. We use Had + V3 to express something had done before another thing in the past
I know what the past perfect tense is used for. But here you have the word “until”, and it points which one of two actions took place first. And I know that if we have a word or words which determine the order of actions, we can use two simple past tenses instead of using past perfect.
Morfik, you’re a challenge :)
The ‘had’ was used as part of the past perfect. Like maihuong suggests, the sequence of actions here is A then B then C. In mentioning C before B, I use the past perfect to maintain the correct sequence even though the sentence doesn’t correspond.
As for the second part of the question: I’m not sure I understood you exactly, but do you mean, for example, “He was depressed by the bad news” vs. “He was depressed”? Truth be told, all -ed adjectives are actually verbs that are used as adjectives (technically, we call these participial adjectives). hmmm… perhaps I’ll make a video about these- where do -ed and -ing adjectives come from.
Sound good to you?
Yes, you understood me well.
As to the past perfect tense, I’m a little bit confused :)
Ronnie said that “After I woke up, I had my breakfast” is a good sentence. So, why is the sentence “C wasn’t done until he completed B.” wrong? :)
Thank you so much Adam for the fruitful lesson you presented.
Thank you Adam,it was so useful.
Very useful lesson. I got 9 points from 10 :D thank you very mutch
thank you adam
much :D
Thanks Mr. Adam,
You make so easy for me and they way of your are teaching is absolutely fantastic
Onece Again thanks Mr. Adam.
Thanks Mr. Adam,
You make so easy for me and the way of your are teaching is absolutely fantastic
Onece Again thanks Mr. Adam
Sorry for the mistake as I put they instead of the
good job .I really got better passive voise
Great Lesson, and you were right, many people disagree on who invented the airplane.
I personaly believe that it was invented by Santos Dumont.
wow…that’s great
thank you Adam
Thank you very much for this lesson. I knew the active passive but I can not understand how to speak in passive. Some I get confused.
Thank you, Adam for all of your lessons. I have been using quite regularly passive voice in my writings , but you gave me the reasons that passive was so beneficial for me.
if the active sentence is…
Julia will take the luggage.
then the passive will be…
The luggage will be taken by Julia. But
if the active is…
Julia will be taking the luggage…then what would be the passive voice?
“The luggage will be being taken by Julia”
– Continuous forms of all tenses always use “being” before PP.
Hi Morfik,
Actually, not in the future, because the ‘be’ here can’t be conjugated (changed) like it can in past and present forms.
On this site — http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/futurecontinuous.html — they say that “will be being washed” and “are going to be being washed” are proper constructions. But they also say that “Passive forms of the Future Continuous are not common.”
Hi Tavo,
In this case the passive would still be “the luggage will be taken by Julia.” the reason is that in the passive, the luggage is receiving the same action regardless of what Julia’s intentions are. In the future we can’t play with the ‘be’ of ‘will be’, so we leave it as is.
I really like your quizes.
Thanks a bundle.
tnks verry m t!
many thanks
hi dear teacher. it is so useful. thank u alotttttttttttt
hi dear teacher
so useful video.my english is so week pls teach more lessons. thanks alot
Greetings from Mashhad!
Thanks everyone. Glad to be helpful
:)
Hi Adam, I like your English lesson :) It is very interesting :) These movies helped me much in my exam :D
Dear Adam,
Thank you so much for your useful English video lesson regarding the passive. After watching it, I did the test and got 7 correct out of 10. I hope to learn some more video lessons in English from you to improve my English in the future.
Thanks again and have a great weekend!
All the best,
Sothearith
Thank you very much Adam. This is very useful lesson.
thanks you so much
You’re a really good teacher. The way you explain things is so clear and very easy to understand.
Thanks a lot.
Greetings from Europe
Good,Informative
Thank-you Adam, I got 10 /10 in the test.But Morfik is going to confuse me….
Don;t worry Mapi,
Ask questions if you’re confused.
:)
hi aAdam .i want to speak fluent English without hesitation .please suggest me how to improve my fluency and vocabulary.
Hi Lisa,
Best advice I can give you is to read a lot. anyting in English will help (especially novels).
:)
sorry… anything
a very interesting lesson
thank u mr adam this in my first time that i vite this website realy i enjoyed & benefited from this lesson
thank you Adam
I’ve got 7 of 10.
But I could get 10 of 10 because I was not sure of my wrong answers:)
Thanks Adam a lot
Perfect!!:)) Good job, thaks you so much!!!:)) Greetings from Poland :D
Bravo Adam,Bravo!
I got 7 correct out of ten,:(
Very usefull and it is easy to learn the way is teached.
Hii Adam,
I am Sona Sharma from India.I have been a member of this educational site for more than one year.I wanna get my basic concept about English tenses cleared by you.After reading newspaper,watching movies,chatting with people online, I have figured out that an action word known as verb is the most important word in English that I need to know to express an action.Imagine,I feel thirsty.I need to have some water to quench my thirst.Then I perform an action called “drinking”.If I am not familiar with this word ,I can’t express what I want.People simply use this action word in different tenses to refer to different point of time like I drank a glass of water after returning from work yesterday as my throat had dried up.In my previous sentence ,I have used it in the past tense to express that I am not thirsty now but I was..
I am just a begginer.plz help me to learn this language well and also check out my sentences….
hello adam ,
there’s a mistake in the 4th choice in question nine , we must say “on saturday ” not just saturday!
Hi Raghad,
Actually, it’s not really a mistake. It’s ok to say it without the ‘on’ though most people usually use it.
:)
Thank you so much
thx mr adam for ur interessting lesson
7/10 :(
Hello Adam,
I’m Kham from Vientiane, Laos. Thank you for your good good lessons. I got 8 of 10. I’ll practive more to get 10 of 10 for your next lessons. Bye.
Hi Adam,
It was amazing lesson, also the quiz was v.good.
i get 10/10.
thnx
oh, man!!! I don’t understand, can you help me, is a english class very hard. Bye bye.
Hi Kevin,
Which part is difficult?
Hi Adam. May I ask you? Sentence: I want to ask you about what happend yesterday.(Using “about” in this sentence is correctly or not correctly?)
Hi Ruslan,
this is a little difficult to answer. If you use about, then you want to discuss the events of yesterday. If you don’t use about, then you want to know what happened. So, in this case, both are correct. It depends which meaning you want.
Does that help?
Thank you very much Adam. It is like in mine language.
excellent explanation
hi Adam i want to konw that how to start preparation for IELTS. Please give me some tips for IELTS.
Hi Lisa,
Again, best advice: read, read, read. Don’t forget that on IELTS, spelling counts, so work on that as well.
Also, look for some videos on this site about the test. I’ll make some vids as well soon.
Good luck :)
thanx Adam.
Hi Adam
Why can’t we write passive for “future continuous” & all “Perfect continuous” tenses ?
HI Jayakoti,
The main reason you can’t say “The car will be being fixed” is because the ‘be’ can’t be changed in the future. In “The car is being fixed,” the first ‘be’ can be changed for the tense, ‘is’. Otherwise it sounds strange. The same goes for the perfect, where been is already the base verb used for the tense.
Does that help?
Hi Adam. I have question,but it is not from this lesson. Excuse me. In the movie “The seven year itch” Marilyn Monroe talking “If I WERE your wife, I’d be very jealous”. Why she is using WERE (it is plural)? Thank you!
Hi Ruslan,
No, it’s not plural. This is called a subjunctive form. If I were…, or He wishes he were…, etc. These are set forms. You never use ‘was’ because these are hypothetical situations, meaning that they are not real.
It is realy big help for me. Thank you very much indeed.
Hi, Adam, Thank you very much for teaching us. Awesome. You said us “He did A. Then he did B, after that C.” You made it in passive ” He did A & C was not done until he had completed B”. But I thought “He did A&B were not done until he had completed”. Their order is A, B and C. Please kindly explain me if my thought is wrong.
Regards,
Ariunaa
He said “C was not done…”
Hi Ariunna,
The correct order is A then B then C. In the sentence I put c before B because I used a past perfect tense. remember that the past perfect is used to talk about an action in the past that happened before another action in the past. So B happened first, but the past perfect lets me change the order in the sentence.
Does that help?
Gocha. Now it is no need to reply to me. Thanks Adam.
Adam, U’re great! Thanks for lesson!
thanks adan
Hello Adam! My name is Akobirkhon Nosirkhudjayev. I’m from Uzbekistan. Nowadays, I’m preparing to TOEFL. And that’s why I need your help. I have problem with my listening. How can I improve my ,,listening”? Thanks for your attention!
Hi Akobirkhon,
Firstly, listen to as much as possible. Try ted.com for practice.
Also, learn how to take good notes while you are listening. I’ll make a video soon about taking notes for TOEFL listening.
WoW
This lecture is really helpful to me!
Thank you for your teaching :-)
thank u sir,
i need few more classes on active voice
Thank you very much
8/10
Thanks vere mutshe
Thanks so much for doing all that.
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I’ve got 10 points of 10 available.
Thanks a lot Adam!
There is only one thing I’d like you to ask about… Could you please tell me why the preposition “on” is absent in the phrase “It was delivered Saturday” (see Quiz 9)? We always say: On Saturday… or on Suday.. and so on.
Thanks.
Hi Rokotelych,
It’s not always necessary to use ‘on’. Though, most people do use it. Students learn it early so they generally use it. But I’ll give another comment in the general box so look for that
:)thanks
I got 8 out of 10 without watching Adam video
but thanks Adam
Hi Adam, how are you. I would like to ask you about the sentence “the sky cleared”. Why is it correct even though its form is not passive. May you please explain this in a new lesson. Thank you in advance
Hi Zeyad,
The sky cleared is not passive because there is no agent that does the clearing. It’s just a situation.
Does that help?
thanks a lot Adam, it helps.
Thanks
The passive voice was learned very quickly.It was taught by a super teacher
thank you
could you recommend me a paid website to GET higher marks in IELTS exam (good yet cheap)
thank you very much in advance
Hi Hotice,
I’ll keep an eye out for a good site and let you know.
:)
i have suggestion for the website admin:
i think it is better to restrict the comments for clarifications and questions so that the teachers can easily find out what we actually lacking for and give advises and correction fast rather than reading comments like thank you or it was very good lessons and so on.
just suggestion
thank you
Hi.in Quiz i got 5 from 10 what does that mean?am good or i need to focus or to understand more that lessen?am looking to hear from you soon teacher.
Hi Imed,
It means that learnign a language takes time and effort.
Keep trying
:)
i got 5correct very poor grammer…-(
yes!! i got 9/10 :))
thanks Adam
Thank you very much..
Thank you Adam. the Lesson is so helpful. I believe that using passive voice in a sentence, makes it more clear and understandable.
so hard my goodness
it’s all right I have learened many thing but no one can talk me in english if some one want
So it’s my number
I took out your phone number because it’s not a good idea to put that online! If you want to talk to people, Skype or Google+ are much better!
Hi Adam , i m from India nd it was really good to learn tht where nd how to use Passive..
nd plz tell me tht is my sentence correct or not?
Hi Everyone,
Just a quick note:
Next week I’ll go to school on Monday and on Tuesday.
Next week I’ll go to school Monday and Tuesday.
Both sentences are OK. More common is to use ‘on’ but you don’t have to.
:)
Hi there,
What about this 1:
Next week I’ll go 2 school on Monday n Tuesday.
Is just 1 ” on ” enough in such a sentence??!!!
Tx in advance.
:)
Hi Fatima,
Yes, one ‘on’ is enough for both.
Mr Adam thanks for the lesson
But my weakness point that made me have only 6 correct answers out of 10 were the questions number 4,5,8 and 10 I don’t understand them
you must do lots of exercises my friend.Once you learn you will love it using in your daily life.
Maybe it is more difficult in your own language’s grammar.
I’m so gland to listen your lesson MR.Adam
and I’m very Happy when u said “pharmacist” in your vid that which the first video I watched here ”
thank u for helping us :)
hi Adam,
Can you explain Q.No:7, I cant find the number of passives in this question/.. need help…
Adam!!
Thank you very much for the lesson.
You are great!!!!!
You are so good in teaching… i will copy the style to teach my class.
I got 10/10; best explanation ever.
BTW, I didn’t understand the expression “are believed to be”. I have no problems with the meaning, but I don’t get the structure.
Hi Gammexane,
Is it the infinitive ‘to be’? Remmeber that in a sentence, only one verb (the main verb) can take a tense. The rest must be infinitives. So, Some people believe that ghosts exist: Ghosts are believed (by some people) to exist.
Does that help?
Yes, thank you very much.
Good.
Thanks a lot for this lesson. And I am looking foward to watch others.
I’m working in Toronto.I do write to politicians and other policy people as part of my work. I only completed basic English when I join with my work. So, I’ve been going through hard time in writing and speaking as well. I didn’t complete intermediate or advance or academic , TOEFL even IELT But, I’ve improved a lot, but still don’t have confident yet. Mostly confused with small small things, such as the embedded questions, how and where to use passive, etc.
But your lesson is giving me very confident and feel more stronger at my work place. It is saving many years of my life. Now I feel I can show my talents as the language has been a big barrier to show my talents therefor my talents have been undermined. Hats off to you Adam and your team.
I’ll visit soon to your place to appreciate your work.
Go ENGVID Go.
Regards,
Tamil EElavan
Thanks adam
excellent mr.Adam. I thank for your effort, I believe than we always should publish our knowledge
## I liked a lot of this lesson because most of the questions are dificult. ##
Thanks!
What’s the meaning of TOEFL?
Sorry, I’m starting here.
Thanx
Thanks a lot for this lesson, it was so important.
Thanks a lot for the lesson, I used to teach only 4 reasons for the passive voice, now I’ve learned 2 more uses.. thanks again you’re a great and knowledgeable teacher.
Although your teaching skills have been widely recognised, here i am to thank you for your help and commitment!!!:)
thanks for this lesson..I need to know more about passive, I have difficulties on this topic :(
Thanks alottttttttttttttt
Hi,
I think you make here a great job. Thank you a lot. I will use that page for sure.
Hello, Adam!
Greetings from Finland.
First of all, thanks for your lesson!
I have now watched 2 of the videos you have made, and I have something to say about them. The fact that bothers me a lot is that you talk so much about verbs, objects, subjects, agents and so on. I know they are pretty important part of what you’re trying to teach us, but still.. for me those things have always been quite hard to understand, not only in English, but also in Finnish (which is my first language).
I was just hoping that maybe you could pay a little more attention in using them, because I think they make things you’re saying a lot more harder to understand, and in spoken or written English (apart for exams) they don’t really matter.
Thanks again!
Thank you so much and we hope to see more topics about passive
Hey Adam, by the way, it was Santos Dummont the one who invented the airplane!
Congratulations, good lesson!
thanks a lot)))
great!!!
On teacher day in Viet nam,I wish you have good health ,success in your job,you will have may good lesson for me and friends over the world.
Nice lesson Adam!! Thank you!
As you said before, we know how to use Passive Voice but it is little used by us haha.
thank you Mr. Adam. it was a useful lesson.I was well informed and educated . Well done
Thank you for the wonderful explanation of passive voice. Now i can do it on my essays. Wish me luck on my upcoming IELTS.
Thanks a lot teacher. I got 10/10 :)
Hi!give me advice please. I lack of understanding.With what I should work harder volcaburaly or grammar
Hi,
I want to get score min 6.5 band in IELTS (general). I wrote exam 3 months back without preparation then got 5.5 band. But it is not sufficient. Could you please guide me how to improve.
Thank you so much for your time.I leaned a lot.
hi, in Q-4 why have not has?
10/10! Apparently…very useful! Thanks a lot!
iscored 4 out of 10.so can u advice my level plz
It’s very usefull and understandable!You are awesome teacher!Thank you.
Thanks a lot. Yours reply also very useful.
Hi Adam
Could u explain to me the difference Btn sometime and any time
Hi Adam
I have a problem with placing the following words in a sentence:
Really
Just
Only
Can you help! Plz
Hi Adam! Can the passive used in this case? Client: When the soup will be done?
Waiter: Your soup is being cooked!
Hi Adam! Can the passive be used in this case? Client: When the soup will be done?
Waiter: Your soup is being cooked!
very useful lessons
thanks so much
YOUR LESSONS ARE AWESOME.BUT I CANT UNDERSTAND
PASSIVES.CAN YOU TELL ME IN DETAIL.PLEASE CAN YOU REPLY MY COMMENT
Congratulations Adam, you are a great teacher. I am studying to be an English teacher too, and want to teach like you. You made it so clearly! The subject was explained perfectly!I can see how thoughtful you are answering all the questions! Thank you very much!
Hi there, I scored 80% on the quiz. I understand why I got the questions wrong and I also see my mistake on the 2nd one, but I don’t see where my mistakes are on the first with recognizing the passives. Please can you give me more examples so I can understand the diffences.
Thank you Adam.
Sorry differences*
thank you very much Mr Adam, you alarmed me to use the passive voice because before I never tried to use the passive voice and one more thing that I hope you will share more funny and brilliant videos with us. thank you again
HI, thanks for your lessons. I have got question that couldn’t you add more videos for IELTS preparation especially reading skills?????
I am looking forward to hearing your respond…
Thank you now is more clear The passive is more clear, but to be’ honest my problem will be when I will speak…..how could help myself ?
Thank you so much. It’s very important to have a clear understanding of ‘passive voice’ to speak and write the right English.
I did the quiz and got 8. How is it?
Ohhhh my Godness !!!
thank you Adam; this my first time I visit engvid; i hope it will help me to get my english good.
Thanks so much
it helps me to understand the passive voice.
thanks so much
i got 6 out of 10.
Thank you Adam, Great Explanation about passive voice.
Thank you so much because I have Known about the value of passive
I need to have one Toefl certificate and how I can get that? Much appreciate if you kindly help thanks
thank you very much.
Hi dear Adam thanks a lot I really like it very much specially Your nice way of explanation also the new quiz style thanks again
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thank you master Adam for your informations about passive voice .by the way I’m from Morocco my classmets found your video very intersting
Thanks Adam ,You are a great teacher.you did the best explanation .It was useful lesson.I’m a weak to understand Question and Answer so confused for that ,I need more practi.I hope to be better . Have a wonderful New Year :D
Ok! I’ll watch again the video and try again, 50, don’t work!
Thanks! Adam for teaching passive voice or the correct use of passive voice. You all are working very good. We are enjoying your lessons. Good bye!
“If this is the first paragraph of a longer essay, what is probably the subject of the essay?” is a question and the correct answer – Bart Hemsey’s theories.
My question is this – Bart Hemsey suggested only one theory, at least it is not written in the text if he made more suggestions than one. Is there anything I missed, or, there is a mistake in composing the correct answer.
Thank you in advance.
Hi adam, thanks a lot. All your lessons have been really useful ! Greetings from mexico :-)
Thank you very much Adam. I understand better passive voice, but the only thing I don’t understand is “It was delivered Saturday. I would say It was delivered on Saturday.
Thank you in advance for your response.
Mariuxi.
dear adam,
what is the meaning of pasive
Wow! Just can say a million thank! Very useful lesson.
Hi Adam,
Well done.
You teach me knowledge about langauage but not language at all. In polish I dont know what the passive or active voice is and I used it automatically. The same I want to do in english or franch for example.
Thanks for your help.
Sir, i have some problem in this question
1. I will be beaten by my mom (is this right or wrong i don’t know….isntead of this we could also right ‘My mom will beat me’ which one is correct)
2. is he worshiped daily(I’m not getting the meaning of this sentence instead of this sentence could i also write’does he wroship daily’ which sentence is correct please i’ve problem in these two sentence)
OMG I couldn`t get all the answers, but I learned something new!! Thanks professor
Great job.
Thank you very much Adam! You are very good theacher!
Thanks a lot Adam. Question#10 of the quiz: is it correct “It was delivered Saturday”? Shouldn’t it be “ON Saturday”?
My native language is Spanish and I need people help me improve my speaking skills in English!
You can send me an e-mail if you are interest in talking throught Skype
Thanks in advance
Good performance, Adam. Keep up the good work
I envisage passing Ielts but I little scary and I’m not sure in myself because of reading and listening what I must do?please help me
Thanks Adam,
I have started to watch ur Videos from yesterday and thinks now English is very easy to learn if some one teach in the same way like u do… Hats off….
Долго и отрешённо. Про Кока-Колу прочитал на доске, освежает.
Long and blankly. About Coca-Cola had read on the board, it’s refreshing.
Great video.
thanks
Hello adam, thanks for your video, but what about the impersonel Passive voice with reporting verbs? I really get mixed up when I have to change the tenses of the that clause:
It is said that the mouse was eaten.
The mouse is said to have been eaten. Correct?
It is said (was said) that the mouse was grey.
The mouse is said to be grey. ???
The mouse was said to be grey. ???
It is said (was said) that the mouse would bite people.
The mouse is said to bite people. ???
The mouse was said to bite people. ???
It was said that the mouse must have bitten about 10 people.
The mouse was said to have bitten about 10 people. ???
Actually, I am just guessing but I haven’t been able yet to find in the internet a rule to follow for all tenses.
I will be very thankful if you could help me as I am going crazy with the exercises I am trying to get right.
Carmen
Eyy you make it so interesting! Now I’m kinda addicted to this page haha.
Hi Adam,
I’m confusing to use ” have/has been + past participle”. Examples, has been fixed, has been provided, have been exposed and so on.
Is this all a passive voice? Normally, in which condition we are going to use it?
Hi Saw13
“have” and “has” depends on the subject.
I, you, we, they, we put “have” in the present perfect. However, she, he, and it we put “has”
past perfect we put “had” with all the subjects.
Ex1: Tom has eatten the apple”
Passive: “the apple has been eatten by Tom.
Ex2 “I have written the letters”
Look the letters here is plearel so;
passive: “the letters have been writen”
hello Adam .
Thank you very much .
You have really helped me so much .
I supposed that you continue for a long time making some good new videos .
Very interesting lesson!
Thanks
The way you teach is great. It’s very very clear for understanding. Thank you so much,teacher
Thank you Adam for very useful lessons
Hi Adam!
Great lesson. I liked the focus on the coherence.
Thanks
Hi everybody. i think the passive is very difficult. but we have to learn it. because not to use the passive, became boring. i like the passive sentence. butttt it is usually difficult for me too.
thanx 4 this lesson.
Hello everyone! thank you Adam to this lesson.
Thank you so much for this class. it is very clear.
I think you are very good explaining this topic, and you are very good using the place, because when you are doing it, you don’t cover the board while you are writing and speaking.
Dear, Adam,
Thank you so much. You’ve been friendly and helpful too.
In fact I want you to see is this sentence correct or incorrect.
Active: “Who wrote the letters?”
Passive: “Whom the letters were written by?”
or “By whom the letters were written?”
Thank you sir. your new student Otman from Morocco.
thanks a lot Adam , you r a fantastic teacher <3
Hey!
That was great and helpful! Thanks!