PASSIVE VOICE - English Grammar step-by-step

What is the passive voice? When do we use the passive voice? And how can I easily

change the active voice, to the passive voice? I'm Arnel from Arnel's

Everyday English, and today I'm going to answer these three questions step by

step. Today's lesson plan is: What is the passive voice? The grammatical structure.

When to use the passive voice. Plus an important study tip: Transforming from

the active to the passive. Some sentences cannot be transformed into the passive.

I'll tell you why. So, there's going to be a lot of information in this lesson. Get

ready to take notes! Let's begin. What is the passive voice? The passive

voice is the opposite of the active voice. Active: Everybody loves chocolate.

Passive: Chocolate is loved by everybody. Active: The lifeguard saved a man. Passive:

A man was saved by the lifeguard. Active: Decorators are painting my house. Passive:

My house is being painted. Okay, here are three examples of the passive. Now let's

look at this grammar in more detail. Step two: The grammatical structure. When you

form the passive you need BE plus a past participle. Here are the forms of BE.

There's a lot. AM/ARE/IS in the present, WAS/WERE in the past. You can use BEEN with

perfect tenses, and BEING in continuous tenses. You need a form of this plus that

past participle which is verb number three: EAT/ATE/EATEN, eaten is my past

participle. PLAY/PLAYED/PLAYED, played is my past participle.

The three sentences from earlier they all have BE and that past participle. So,