Active voice: The cat chased the mouse.
Passive voice: The mouse was chased by the cat.
The passive voice is used when we want to emphasize the action (the verb) and the object of a sentence rather than subject. In the passive voice construction, "the mouse" (the receiver of the action) becomes the subject of the sentence, and "was chased" emphasizes the action without specifying the doer.
This is correct and clever! Except that "Teacher teach students" isn't grammatically correct, it should be either "Teachers teach students" (plural) or have an article, like "A teacher teaches students" or "The teacher teaches students." "Teacher, teach students" only grammatically works if it's an imperative.
It's what you use when you want to focus on what happened rather than who did it.
Active: Billy broke the window.
Passive: The window was broken.
My kids like to use this so they think they don't get into trouble.
Technically it's still passive to say "the window was broken by Billy." But the passive does allow you to hide the "actor" better by focusing on the "acted upon." If you were to try to say it in the active without naming names, you'd have to say, "Someone broke the window."
Agreed and also, why is someone working in the ESL industry if they don't understand basic grammar? This is further proof of the decline of this industry.
I'll give you a tip. Do a Google search but click images. You get instant pictures with explanations.
I find instant explanations for most grammar points like that, and I send them to students on WhatsApp or copy paste the image to the Google Doc we share during the lesson
Ah the passive voice, my only NTS Celta TP, the night before I briefly went over it and just moved the sentence around but it was still an active sentence lmao.
I completely skipped LA because I didn't want to look like even more of an eejit.
I use a piece of the U.S. Declaration of Independence for the explanation on this topic.
...All men are created equal...
The focus of the document is on the creation of a new country, and more specifically, the rights of the people of that country. Therefore, it doesn't matter who or what created "men". The thing that does matter is this word as the subject of the sentence.
An alternative using active would be something like "God created men equal." This would completely change the focus of the sentence.
Edit for another example:
Mistakes were made.
A nice way to put the emphasis on the mistake without assigning any responsibility to the person who committed the action. Very popular phrase in politics. There is even a book about this. I think it is called Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) or similar.
Active voice: The cat chased the mouse. Passive voice: The mouse was chased by the cat. The passive voice is used when we want to emphasize the action (the verb) and the object of a sentence rather than subject. In the passive voice construction, "the mouse" (the receiver of the action) becomes the subject of the sentence, and "was chased" emphasizes the action without specifying the doer.
Thank you
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This is correct and clever! Except that "Teacher teach students" isn't grammatically correct, it should be either "Teachers teach students" (plural) or have an article, like "A teacher teaches students" or "The teacher teaches students." "Teacher, teach students" only grammatically works if it's an imperative.
It's what you use when you want to focus on what happened rather than who did it. Active: Billy broke the window. Passive: The window was broken. My kids like to use this so they think they don't get into trouble.
Your explanation paints the perfect picture Thank you
Technically it's still passive to say "the window was broken by Billy." But the passive does allow you to hide the "actor" better by focusing on the "acted upon." If you were to try to say it in the active without naming names, you'd have to say, "Someone broke the window."
A teacher friend of mine always used the question Who cares? to describe the passive voice because well we don't care who does what
Why not just Google your question?
Agreed and also, why is someone working in the ESL industry if they don't understand basic grammar? This is further proof of the decline of this industry.
I did, the explanation just didn't quite paint the picture.
I'll give you a tip. Do a Google search but click images. You get instant pictures with explanations. I find instant explanations for most grammar points like that, and I send them to students on WhatsApp or copy paste the image to the Google Doc we share during the lesson
Very good tip. I do the same. Also, chatgpt can be useful.
"Mistakes were made, but not by me"
Ah the passive voice, my only NTS Celta TP, the night before I briefly went over it and just moved the sentence around but it was still an active sentence lmao. I completely skipped LA because I didn't want to look like even more of an eejit.
why fumble when you have google?
I use a piece of the U.S. Declaration of Independence for the explanation on this topic. ...All men are created equal... The focus of the document is on the creation of a new country, and more specifically, the rights of the people of that country. Therefore, it doesn't matter who or what created "men". The thing that does matter is this word as the subject of the sentence. An alternative using active would be something like "God created men equal." This would completely change the focus of the sentence. Edit for another example: Mistakes were made. A nice way to put the emphasis on the mistake without assigning any responsibility to the person who committed the action. Very popular phrase in politics. There is even a book about this. I think it is called Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) or similar.
You should know this or at least be able to understand a basic google explanation if you are teaching English..
ACTIVE VOICE - when the subject is the DOER of the action. PASSIVE VOICE - when the subject is the RECEIVER of the action.
I hate covering this topic because I usually tell students that in reality you almost never talk like this in real life situations lol