Write to us in the comments! We love hearing from you guys. ❤ For more on Active vs Passive Voice, check out the following resources: 👍 Active/Passive: webapps.towson.edu/ows/activepass.htm EF English: www.ef.com/english-resources/english-grammar/passive-voice-active-voice/ British Council: learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es/english-grammar/active-and-passive-voice

@vivianplaut

5 жыл бұрын

At last a great explanation, in summary I goi it for real this time! Thanks Teacher Wes;)

@mariyafernandez5540

5 жыл бұрын

The ship is sailing. Change this sentence into passive voice sir.

@mariyafernandez5540

5 жыл бұрын

The ship is sailing. Change this sentence into passive voice sir.

@nassimchandani6390

3 жыл бұрын

My grand mother was knit the sweater

@nassimchandani6390

3 жыл бұрын

My Grand mother knited the sweater

Thank so much I'm jean Emable From Haiti

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

Glad the lesson was useful. 😃

Thank you very much! This is a concrete presentation on the use of Active and Passive voice. Sharing this with my student. Kudos!

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the lesson. And I appreciate you sharing it with your students. 😊

Hello. I'm in an english course and I suffer with it, you are my relief with that as your videos are great and very useful, thanks a lot!!!

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

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teacher of English from Algérie,thanks sir.

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome. 😊

I love your grammar lessons. Very helpful!

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

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Hi Wes, You have done a lot to improve English grammar skills. Thanks a ton.

@InteractiveEng

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear that! Thanks for your comment. 😃

As a screenwriter, I appreciate your helpful review of active versus passive voice. Active voice along with present tense works best in screenwriting because the narration portion of the script must be described in dynamic real time. Just as an audience watches a movie on the big screen, the screenwriter must write it as if it was happening in front of us. Passive voice and past tense sounds too draggy and novel-like for a screenwriter's purposes. Thanks for the punchy lesson.

Hi Wes I really learn a new thing from your lesson on Active Vs passive voice.watching your lesson is worthwhile.

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you for the lesson you gave

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

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I really appreciate your lesson, and keep helping us.

@InteractiveEng

2 жыл бұрын

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Thank you teacher Wes. I really love your English course.

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Wesner. Glad you enjoyed the lesson. Have a great day! 😊

Thank you for the lesson. You have made it much easier to understand.

@InteractiveEng

2 жыл бұрын

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Thank you very much for a useful lesson!

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment Nikolay. I'm glad you enjoyed the lesson. Have a great day! 😊

Whether active writing on social media like i am doing right now , will can be help me to improve become active english. Very exhausting while i was speaking too much to myself or join foreigners conversation. I love writing and listening.

@InteractiveEng

Жыл бұрын

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Give us more lesson like this ; it is difficult, but interesting .

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

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Thank you for the great lesson!

@InteractiveEng

8 ай бұрын

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Amazing way of teaching clear explanation as well as the pronunciation really clear.

@InteractiveEng

Жыл бұрын

Glad you think so! 😃

Everything is clearly when you talk.....good teacher. ....Arturo from Honduras

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

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@julianalyashako3042

3 жыл бұрын

@@InteractiveEng hlw sir this is a mazing wow i'm from nambia. I want to practise more in english . I hope you will help me with english.

many thanks.

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

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Very good grammer lession ,thanks you very much for you

@InteractiveEng

Жыл бұрын

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Thank you!

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

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I have learnt a lot. I would like to join the class as well so that i could interact with you directly. Congratulations teacher! I´m following you from the democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

@InteractiveEng

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy the lessons. Keep up the good work! 👏

Thank you this help me a lot for my grammar class

Thank you so much.

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the lesson Romima. Hope you have a great day. 👍

thanks teacher.

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

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Tq u sir giving useful lesson.

Thank you I am from 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka

@InteractiveEng

Жыл бұрын

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:) I listened with pleasure. A very enjoyable instructive video.Thank you

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

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Thank you

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

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Hey! Great class! Teacher learning from another Teacher how to explain Passive/Active!

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Claudia. Glad it was helpful!

Thanks a lot

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

No problem. Glad you enjoyed the lesson. Have a great day! 😊

You are the best teacher's ever before never after

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Anitha! 😊

Great lesson!

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

sir, gd evening have learned some thing about Active Passive voice Thank u

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment Yenebera. I'm so glad you learned something new! Have a wonderful day!

Thanks

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome. Glad you enjoyed the lesson. 😃

thank you so much

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the lesson. Hope you have a great day! 😊

Excellent service for students

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

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Excelent Class. Congratulation

@InteractiveEng

Жыл бұрын

Many thanks! Glad it was helpful. 😊

You are an amazing teacher... Love from India...

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

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This video helped me while preparing for exam. Thank you✨

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped! 👍

Hello sir, I'm Nestor Lasta watching from Phil.

@InteractiveEng

2 жыл бұрын

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Hi Wes, could you please make a lesson on transitive and intransitive verb. Thank you 💖

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. I'll keep your suggestion in mind for the future. 👍

Am makori from Tanzania,,u are very wonderful teacher,,,

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting Makori. I'm glad you enjoy our lessons, and we're happy to have you as part of our community. 😊

Thanks for the video watching from Namibia

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Souma. Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. Glad you enjoyed it. I used to live and teach in Namibia. I taught at a secondary school just north of Oshakati. 😊👍

Hi dude!! I'm from Dominican Republic, I do really like your classes. I would love to see a video about "how can I improve my listening".

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ramon. Glad you enjoyed the lesson. We'll do more listening lessons in the future. 👍

Hi sir I'm from nagaland India I learned a lot from your video.

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

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the lesson was learned🎁thanks for that usefuulll video💎💎💎💎

@InteractiveEng

7 ай бұрын

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I always watch your videos and enrich my vocabulary

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

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Cheers from Italy !!

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

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Thank you so much you're a wonderful teacher .Actually I'm a new student to your channel .I hope I get benefit and I wish you all the best. God bless you.

@InteractiveEng

6 ай бұрын

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@hamzahussien-fg3de

6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much. I Wonder if l can ask you questions if I have because I'm a student in secondary school and I'm preparing for my English exam.

Oh yeah thank you it helped a lot 😊

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the lesson Abdollah. Hope you have a wonderful day! 😊

Perfect channel

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

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Good teaching

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

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I haven't learned anything new but practice makes perfect someone. I am waiting your new lesson but I haven't found it yet.

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

That's right. Practice makes perfect. We post new lessons on Tuesdays. On Saturdays, we usually do live-lessons but we've taken a short break since family is visiting. 😊

Thanks sir

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

You're welcome. 👍

Hello Teacher from Cambodia

An amazing lesson was taught by wes

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the lesson. 👍

@glorencenakavuma

Жыл бұрын

Wow thanks so much I learnt how to use it

Hey Mr.Wes,how's it going?Loved the lesson!

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

We're doing well. Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. 👍

Very good grammar !!!!

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Rodrigo. Glad you enjoyed the lesson & found it useful. 😊

Rajesh Mohanan... I'm from India.. Everyday, I follow your class Thank you sir...😍

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Rajesh. Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. Hope you have a great weekend! 😊

Here is simple understanding. :) verb-ing and verb past participle are adjectives. : verb-ing shows state of actively doing something. : verb p.p shows state of being result of past action by others when you use adjectives, you need be verb to complete the meaning of sentence. so, structure is formed.

Hi, your videos are amazing i learned a lot from your channel but my request is please make some videos on day to day life incidents and tricky English short and sweet conversations for example like sitting on the floor at least an hour after then when you stand up on the floor suddenly your legs are might be numbness like this kind of expression i hope you understand

Well ; Wes you are a good do. Iam Felipe I am from Haiti.

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Felipe. Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. Have a great day. 😊

Thanks. My name is Elme i'm from Meghalaya from Northeast India

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Elma. Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the lessons. 😊

@nobita-kungaming356

3 жыл бұрын

@@InteractiveEng its elme but i think its a spelling mistake its ok

thanku thanku

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Raju. Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. 👍

good job

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the lesson. Have a great day. 😃👍

wow your gert teacher.

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your comment. We're glad you enjoy our lessons. Have a great week! 😊

Interesting , tell me please teacher : knit stays the same in past simple and participle , i look forward to hearing from you

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Abdollah. That's a great question. TO KNIT is an irregular verb. For the past simple & past participle, we can use knit/knitted. Both are okay. I think the -ed form may be more common in the US. So for example: Yesterday, I knit a sweater. / Yesterday, I knitted a sweater. Hope this helps! 😃👍

In the history mistakes were made, but we shouldn't repeat them again. Now we now better.

Hi! Joy, from philippines.

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

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Thanks for your indispensable video in particular the way you illiterate with your supreme methodology I'd love to have video call with you even my students as well since they watched your video they've gone crazy about it thanks any way. Regards Saeed noor

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Saeed. Glad you enjoyed the lesson. I'm glad your students enjoyed it as well. Hope you have a great day! 😊

Helpful even after 3 years

@InteractiveEng

2 жыл бұрын

That's great! I'm happy to hear it. 😃

Pls teach.more and more.

@InteractiveEng

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting & participating in the lesson. 👍

Thanks for your efforts. Why do we use the word voice with passive and active. What does it mean here? Sound or not?

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment Aimanno. That's a great question. The word "voice" refers to the verbs. Here's a good resource: www.dictionary.com/browse/active-voice

@aimannomourad6996

6 жыл бұрын

Interactive English thanks a million, great 👍 answer , the first Interactive English Channel ‘s video was uploaded on 20/2/2017, although the channel had been established on 5/1/2017, indeed I don’t know the reason.

I'm from India, love your classes. My friend stopped the car near the railway station. The car is stopped near the railway station. The car stopped near the railway station.

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Joseph. Thanks so much for commenting & checking out the lesson. Hope you have a wonderful day! 😊

Very useful lesson, how can we find there is no object in PV

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. That's a great question. First, you can ask "Who?" or "What?" the subject is doing to determine if there's an object. If you can answer the question, then the answer is your object. For example: My best friend paints pictures --> What does my best friend paint? (pictures) / She helped me yesterday. --> Who did she help? (me). If there's an object, then we change it to passive. If the sentence is already in the passive voice, then we can change it to active. And the subject in the passive will be the object in the active voice. 😃

good jobb

really.its very usefull for me #$imran

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Sandeep. I appreciate your comment. Hope you enjoyed the rest of your weekend! 😊

Hi, am Marylue from México.

What is the purpose of them? And why do we need to use passive and active, and those are deferent from tenses? Thank you

Good lesson , I am SUNIL from INDIA

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Sunil. Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. Have a great day! 😊

Nelly From Namibia 🇳🇦🇳🇦, Southern Africa

@InteractiveEng

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. I used to live in northern Namibia. (Omungwelume) 👍

@nellyickua7868

3 жыл бұрын

@@InteractiveEng wow come back agai pls 🙈🙏

good

@InteractiveEng

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking out the lesson. 👍

hi! this is the first time I am watching this video.

Hi my name is Selvin and I’ve been watching your videos for 2 months but I haven’t commented yet. I’ve been living in the USA for almost 2 years and my English is improving while I speak and I need to ask. Should I stop thinking about my first language to Learn more and more English?

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Selvin. Thanks for commenting & checking out today's lesson. If you'd like to continue improving your English skills, I'd recommend continuous practice & study. So if you're living in the US, hopefully you're getting daily speaking practice. Then there's a lot of fun practice you can do on our own between reading & watching TV (I'd recommend using subtitles from time to time). The more exposure you have to the target language (English), the more you'll train your brain to start processing everything in English. Keep practicing & keep up the good work! 😃👍

I have a question. If I said, "A Honda is what my friend drives", would it be considered as passive? Does passive voice strictly need to be with a past participle? Also if the statement isn't passive, what would it be categorised as? Or is that just plain bad English? Thanks

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting James. In your sentence, "...what my friend drives" is an adjective clause. So this is not the passive voice. The adjective clause in this case describes the car. 👍

Thanks I have a question What abut simple future how to change the active to passive

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Natalie. Thanks for commenting. Changing the simple future looks like this: He will take the bus. --> The bus will be taken by him. 👍 Truthfully, it's not often used unless when omitting the person/thing doing the action. For example, you may hear something like: The report will be submitted tomorrow. This would be a more common use. 😊

I am Abdi from Somalia.

@InteractiveEng

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Abdi. Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. 👍

Why can,t say (I have kept my diet up over a month)? by putting my diet between a phrasal verb. thank you so much.شكرا جزيلا.

I'm from Cambodia.

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Chheng, thank you for sharing. I hope you found our video useful. I hope you have a great day!

@aliiqbalshaik3481

5 жыл бұрын

Let ..can be used in passive voice.. plz teach about it in details

Well explained and understood video - thanks loads - however why is passive voice 'formal' and active voice 'informal' ?? Thx

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

Hi Isabel. Thanks for your comment. The passive voice has more authority & often used in formal texts because in some contexts the subject may be irrelevant. For example, writing down the steps of a complex procedure. It's not necessary to identify the person/scientist/researcher completing the action each time. Active is more common, easier to read, and therefore viewed as being less formal. 😃👍

@isabelnavarro6611

6 жыл бұрын

Brilliant now I understand. It's not something which is taught in English schools. In fact, in the UK you aren't taught as much grammar as what you ought to be. Your videos are of great help and it's very much appreciated. Thank you

@jessespad

5 жыл бұрын

@@isabelnavarro6611 We were not taught this either in high school (USA). It's like the U.S. Dept. of Ed. wants everyone to sound stupid. I'm sure they would have another class on Ebonics, before they taught this.

31:48 That was me!! I've been taught by wes!!

@bassam_salim

6 жыл бұрын

Is it correct?

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining me today Bassam! Your passive sentence is correct. 👍 Keep up the good work! 🎉

@bassam_salim

6 жыл бұрын

Interactive English Thank you very much sir, I really appreciate it!

Sir You asked a passive form here is: "What is best friend driven "

Hi, teacher Wes. Can you correct me with few more sentences? 1. The pipe under the sink is leaking. Or The pipe under the sink was leaked. which one is correct? I'm thinking about the subject is unknown, maybe a very strange thinking. 2. My coffee cup is fragile. 3. My file folders have disappeared 4. My file folders have rearranged.

@anniewalker5340

6 жыл бұрын

Waiting for your reply

@InteractiveEng

6 жыл бұрын

You would say "The pipe under the sink is leaking." or "The pipe under the sink was leaking." Both are active sentences in the continuous tense. 👍

What is voice change definition? Plz say.

Like learning here

@InteractiveEng

Жыл бұрын

That's great! Thanks for commenting & checking out the lesson. 👍

Sir what will be the passive voice of the following senteces. 1-He had told me to do it.

Sir you said the subject of the passive voice receives the action then what about the object of the passive voice

@InteractiveEng

5 жыл бұрын

With the passive, there may or may not be an object. There would be an object if the active sentence has an indirect object. The indirect object would become the direct object of a passive sentence. 😊👍 Example: I told him a story. --> He was told a story by me. ("story" is the object)

My grandmother knitted the sweater. We was have been locked out of the room.

@InteractiveEng

Жыл бұрын

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