We're continuing with the passive voice. Today I'll show you how to make the past tense passive:
Subject + (be) + the past participle
The car was fixed yesterday.
The accident victims were taken to the hospital.
Use "was" or "were" depending on the subject. Let's practice by changing a few sentences into the passive voice. These are all in the past tense:
A hunter killed two wild turkeys. Two wild turkeys were killed by a hunter.
Someone hit my car in the parking lot. My car was hit in the parking lot.
Skilled surgeons performed the operation. The operation was performed by skilled surgeons. �
This video will help you as well.
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Hi Paul,
I wanted to know the difference between active and passive voice. And which is advisable to use in our day to day conversions.
The passive voice shouldn't be your first choice. When writing and speaking the active voice is more direct, more forceful, and easier to understand; however, there are those circumstances when you don't know who is going to do something or who did something, and then the passive voice is invaluable. Americans use it all the time, and if you don't understand it, it will cause major, major confusion for you.
Your videos are very thorough and it clears out all the doubts therefore, I was wondering if you can explain the differences between the passive and active voice and a couple of examples in your video lessons. I would really appreciate it.
Thanks,
Y
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