24. Active Voice and Passive Voice. English Grammar

[regan4000]

Great and instructional video as always.... You'll be being seen by me in the next will.

[AppleADDICT1997]

You need a better camera

[casadejoey]

Is it always a passive voice if it's a linking verb?

[mrthoth]

@casadejoey No. Linking verbs never occur in passive constructions. I have a video on linking verbs (I use the older term "copulative verb").  When forms of "to be" appear in passive constructions, they do so as auxiliary verbs (or helping verbs). In "We were happy," "were" is a linking verb, and active. In "We were invited," "were" is an auxiliary verb, and "were invited" is in the passive voice.

[casadejoey]

@mrthoth I've so much to learn "/

[simanbrar]

well done :)

[expatted]

Your vids always rock

An esl teacher here :)

[anasmansoor16]

George Clooney :D

[PoisonedShaggy101]

End was funny :D

I learned a lot though,

I wish I had teachers like you in my school :(

well You really helped me,

thanks :)

[KenKoh9801]

There's no equivalent passive verb of verbs in the active voice in the future progressive tense, and 'will be seeing' is in the future progressive tense. So, there's no such verb phrase as 'will be being seen', is there?

[mrthoth]

@KenKoh9801 All tenses can be employed in both the active and passive voice. The following, for example, is a perfectly natural English sentence: By morning, my letter to the editor will be being read at breakfast tables around the country.

[yemensam]

It's helped me thanks !

[dor3k]

Great explanation, mrthoth. Just one suggestion, please use a readable marker next time you make an explanation video. Thanks.

[bicnarok]

WTF, why make language so complicated. Insane!!

[pspezone]

It is a nice explonation ,excellent !

[wiseguy989]

ok where is my decoder ring?

[juensong]

That's a very funny one. Question: In the sentence "I wanna be kissed by you, just you, nobody else but you, boop boop de boop", 'be kissed by you' sounds like the passive voice, but it's not, right? Because 'want' is the verb, and the rest of it must be an infinitive phrase acting as a noun, according to your #13 video. So is 'kissed by you' an adjective withing that noun phrase? Or what?

[hard1steel]

You will be being seen by many learners!

[xwizdom]

very good refresher video!!

[ACHO1org]

thank you for posting these videos. you are great.

[TheLarssan]

Thanks. :)

[HENJAM48]

Perhaps, Ktalent, you could post a vid or two?

[YoungNarnia]

Thank YOu =)

[YoungNarnia]

Thank u so much ... am using this information to work on my project which is due 2 day later lol

[kjfpro1]

this video suckssss

[toolongclankytoolong]

i'm taking a 300 level class at my university and your short but informative lectures are helping me. thanks a bunch! =]

[tdog661]

I agree with Ktalanet i mean no offense but no wonder that your budgets are cut

[ericalexander19]

Is that the way to change all futture progressives? You just and a "being" and change the main verb to the past progressive form?

[Ktalanet]

Jesus! Right! These lessons mau be interesting but they are so boring!!! I can't imagine myself preparing a lesson like this for my students. They would place me in the middle of the twon square and burn me up!!! The point is teaching not showing how much you know!

[MansoorY]

Ktalanet. This lesson is designed for advanced and grown up students. For kids and children it's definitely boring but for us it's too interesting. Please Mr' mrthoth keep up the great work

[ashfaq2001]

" The board is slapped by me" . Is it passive voice?

[mrthoth]

Yes!

[casadejoey]

@ashfaq2001 Leave the board alone!

Is this an imperative or exclamatory sentence? Can it be both at once?

[salvatograsso86]

Also if the ink is invisible, hahahahah! lol!This lesson is excellent as always!!

[nicoleb]

Cont. That is, you never say: "I haven't clean," but: "I haven't cleaned." However, your explanation made things much clearer (although I still think English could do without past participle tense...). Since "have" is the present tense, rather than the past one like "did (not)" is of "do (not)," the verb still needs to be conjugated into its past participle tense, because its auxiliary isn't, and without something in the past tense, the sentence wouldn't be in the past. Thank you so much! ^_^

[nicoleb]

Also, one thing that I find weird about English: In the past simple tense, when you want to make the verb negative, you don't have to keep it in the past tense anymore. That is: "I didn't see," rather than: "I didn't saw." You mentioned that you only need to make one word go into the past tense, and that will make the whole sentence go into the past, so now I can finally understand the past participle rules, which I had previously thought to be irregular.

[nicoleb]

Anyway, my pointless rambling aside, I really love your videos. I like to think of myself as a grammar expert, but your videos have taught me some things that I didn't know before (they don't teach English grammar properly in schools these days, so I get most of my information from linguistic books and Wikipedia XD). For example, I always used to think of "may," "might," etc. as auxiliary verbs as well, but now I know that they're modals. That really helps a lot. Thanks. ^_^

[nicoleb]

My God... There is no such thing as coincidence, is there? I checked out most of your videos yesterday at about three o'clock in the morning, and promised myself that I would watch the rest when I woke up the next day (well, earlier that morning). Now it's the next day (earlier morning), and you've uploaded a new video! Even though you hadn't updated in a whole year, you've uploaded a new video! On the very day that I found you out! That's amazing! XD

[MansoorY]

Awesome lesson as usual sir. Thanks a heap