PASSIVE VOICE | Learn How To Change From Active to Passive Voice in English Grammar

Hello, everyone. This is Mike from Shaw English. 

大家好。我是Shaw English 的迈克。

In today's basic English video,

在今天的基础英语视频中，

I’m going  to be teaching you about the active and passive voice in English.

我将教您英语的主动语态和被动语态。

Now many of  you know how to use the active voice,

现在很多人都知道如何使用主动语态，

but you might have a tough time switching over using the passive voice.

但你可能很难切换到使用被动语态。

It's okay. No worries. 

没关系。不用担心。

By the end of today's video, you're  going to understand it all very well. 

看完今天的视频，您将会很好地理解这一切。

Make sure you keep watching  until the end of the video 

请确保继续观看视频直到结束，

because there will be a quiz and some homework. 

因为会有测验和一些作业。

You ready? Let's go. 

你准备好了吗？我们走吧。

So before we can start switching our  sentences from active to passive, 

因此，在我们开始将句子从主动切换为被动之前，

it's very important for us to understand  the different parts of a sentence. 

理解句子的不同部分对于我们来说非常重要。

Let's look at our board.

让我们看看我们的董事会。

We have a sentence written, ‘The boy opened the door.’

我们写了一句话：“男孩打开了门。”

This is an example of an active sentence

这是一个主动句的例子

which usually follows the pattern of subject verb object.

，通常遵循主语动词宾语的模式。

Our subject the ‘doer’ is ‘the boy’. But what did the boy do? 

我们的主题“行动者”是“男孩”。但男孩做了什么？

‘The boy opened…’ ‘open’ is the example of an action. 

“男孩打开了……”“打开”是一个动作的例子。

What did the boy open? The boy opened the door. 

男孩打开了什么？男孩打开了门。

‘the door’ is the receiver or the direct object. 

“门”是接受者或直接宾语。

So again, before we can really switch  our sentences from active to the passive, 

再说一遍，在我们真正将句子从主动语态转换为被动语态之前，

it's very important for us to understand  the different parts of a sentence. 

理解句子的不同部分对我们来说非常重要。

And the more that we understand  different parts of a sentence, 

我们对句子的不同部分了解得越多，

the easier it will be to switching  active sentences to passive sentences. 

就越容易将主动句转换为被动句。

So now let's switch our active  sentence over to a passive one. 

现在让我们将主动句改为被动句。

Here's our sentence from before: ‘The boy opened the door.’ 

这是我们之前的句子：“男孩打开了门。”

Now, we have, ‘The door was opened by the boy.’

现在，我们知道，“门是男孩打开的。”

Like I mentioned earlier, for active sentences, they follow the subject verb object pattern. 

就像我之前提到的，对于主动句，它们遵循主谓宾模式。

Well it's a little bit different  from the passive sentence. 

嗯，它与被动句有点不同。

Before we had the receiver  at the end of the sentence, 

之前我们将接收者放在句子的末尾，

now we have the receiver in  the beginning of the sentence. 

现在我们将接收者放在句子的开头。

‘The door was opened…’ Wow. Our verb is the same. 

“门开了……”哇。我们的动词是一样的。

Or the action is the same. But we have a ‘to be’ verb added on. 

或者动作是一样的。但我们添加了一个“to be”动词。

‘was opened’ is our ‘to be’ verb  plus the past participle of ‘open’. 

“was open”是我们的“to be”动词加上“open”的过去分词。

Now, it could also be these ‘to be’ verbs as well.

现在，也可能是这些“是”动词。

But, we're going to use ‘was’.

但是，我们将使用“was”。

And this will change depending on the  tense that we're using in our sentence. 

这将根据我们在句子中使用的时态而变化。

We also have ‘the door being opened by the boy’.

我们还有“门被男孩打开”。

Now, the reason why we have it in brackets is because

现在，我们之所以将其放在括号中是因为

sometimes we don't need to know who is the ‘doer’.

有时我们不需要知道谁是“执行者”。

In this sense, the boy is the ‘doer’. And this ‘by’ helps us understand that  

从这个意义上说，男孩是“行动者”。这个“by”帮助我们理解

it is the boy who is opening the door.

是那个男孩在开门。

Let's look at some more examples.

让我们看一些更多的例子。

Okay, so now we have examples of active sentences  that we're going to change to passive sentences.  

好的，现在我们有主动句的例子，我们将把它们改为被动句。

Let's look at our first one.

让我们看看我们的第一个。

‘The woman helped the man.’

“女人帮助了男人。”

We learned earlier that whenever we're  changing active sentences to passive sentences, 

我们之前了解到，每当我们将主动句更改为被动句时，

we are going to need to switch  our doer and our receiver. 

我们都需要切换执行者和接收者。

In this one, the doer, who is the woman, is  going to switch places with the receiver,  

在这句话中，执行者（即女性）将与接收者

who is the man, because now the man is  the focus of the sentence and will now  

（即男性）交换位置，因为现在男人是句子的焦点，现在将

come to the front - the man.

来到前面——男人。

But what's our action?

但我们的行动是什么？

Well in our sentence before,  our action is ‘helped’. 

在我们之前的句子中，我们的行动是“帮助”。

We're going to now change this  to the past participle which,  

我们现在要把它改为过去分词，

luckily for us the past participle,  is ‘helped’.

幸运的是，过去分词是“helped”。

Now, we're going to add our ‘to be’ verb which is ‘was’.

现在，我们要添加“to be”动词，即“was”。

So the man was helped. By whom?

于是，这个人就得到了帮助。通过谁？

The woman.

女人。

Which is now at the end of the sentence.

现在位于句子的末尾。

‘The man was helped by the woman.’

“那个男人得到了那个女人的帮助。”

Let's look at our next one.

让我们看看下一篇。

‘The cat bit the girl.’

“那只猫咬了那个女孩。”

Just like we learned before, we're going to switch our doer and our receiver.

就像我们之前学过的那样，我们将交换我们的执行者和接收者。

So now the girl is in the front of the sentence.

所以现在这个女孩就在这句话的前面了。

‘The girl… bit…’ The past participle of bit? 

“那个女孩……位……”bit 的过去分词？

This one's a little bit different.

这个有点不同。

‘bit’ is going to change to ‘bitten’

“bit”将变为“bitten”

When we add our ‘to be’ verb ‘was’,

当我们添加“to be”动词“was”时，

‘The girl was bitten...'

“那个女孩被咬了……”

By what?

被什么咬了？

The cat.

那只猫。

‘The girl was bitten by the cat.’

“那个女孩被猫咬了。”

‘The knife cut the bread.’ 

“刀切面包了。”

‘The bread was cut by the knife.’

“面包是用刀切的。”

I think we're getting this.

我想我们明白了。

‘The student answered the question.’

“学生回答了问题。”

‘The question was answered by the student.’

“问题已由学生回答。”

In our last one, ‘The teacher taught the class.’ 

在我们的上一篇中，“老师教课。”

‘The class was taught by the teacher.’

“这门课是老师教的。”

Wow. I think we're getting better.

哇。我想我们正在变得更好。

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

So earlier we changed some sentences from the active to the passive voice.

所以之前我们把一些句子从主动语态改为被动语态。

Well now, let's practice recognizing sentences in the active and passive voice.

现在，让我们练习识别主动语态和被动语态的句子。

Our first one, ‘The bat hit the ball.’

我们的第一个，“球棒击中了球。”

hmm,

嗯，

well, I can see that the doer of my action

好吧，我可以看到我的行动的执行者

is the ‘bat’.

是“蝙蝠”。

What did the bat do?

蝙蝠做了什么？

The action is ‘hit’. ‘The bat hit…’ 

动作是“击中”。 “球棒击中了……”

What's the receiver?

接收器是什么？

‘the ball’

'球'

‘The bat hit the ball.’

'球棒击中了球。'

Oh, this is definitely

哦，这绝对是

a sentence written in the active voice. 

一个主动语态写的句子。

‘The food was cooked by the man.’

“食物是那个男人做的。”

Now, there are some big clues in this sentence.

现在看来，这句话里有一些大端倪。

‘…by the man.’ Oh, yeah. 

“……那个男人。”哦耶。

That's a clue.

这是一个线索。

Also, ‘was cooked’.

还有“煮熟了”。

Well here's our past participle  and our ‘to be’ verb. 

这是我们的过去分词和“to be”动词。

This sentence, for sure, is a  sentence written in the passive voice. 

这句话，肯定是用被动语态写的句子。

‘The floor was cleaned.’

“地板已经清理干净了。”

Okay, so I see I have my ‘to be’ verb ‘was’.

好的，我知道我有“to be”动词“was”。

And my past participle ‘cleaned’.

我的过去分词“干净”。

But it seems like I’m missing something.

但似乎我错过了一些东西。

I have the receiver but not the doer.

我有接收者，但没有执行者。

It's okay.

没关系。

Like we mentioned before, for some  sentences, you may not have the doer. 

就像我们之前提到的，对于某些句子，你可能没有执行者。

This is an example of a passive  sentence without the doer. 

这是一个没有执行者的被动句的例子。

‘The essay about the economy  was written by the student.’ 

“关于经济的论文是学生写的。”

Now, it's okay. I know this is a big sentence. 

现在，没关系了。我知道这是一句大话。

But I know we can do it.

但我知道我们能做到。

Because “boom” ‘by the student’.

因为“繁荣”是“由学生”造成的。

There's our clue.

这就是我们的线索。

Also ‘was written’.

也‘被写’。

We have our past participle and our ‘to be’ verb.

我们有过去分词和“to be”动词。

This is a sentence written in passive voice.

这是一个用被动语态写的句子。

And our last one. We're almost there. Stay with me. 

还有我们的最后一个。我们快到了。留在我身边。

‘The best team won the football game.’ Good job team. 

“最好的球队赢得了足球比赛。”干得好，团队。

Our team is our doer.

我们的团队是我们的实干家。

What did the team do?

团队做了什么？

What's the action?

有什么动作？

The team won.

球队赢了。

What did they win? They won the football game. 

他们赢得了什么？他们赢得了足球比赛。

This is definitely a sentence  written in the active voice. 

这绝对是一个用主动语态写的句子。

Ah, good job. That's some good practicing - recognizing  

啊，干得好。这是一些很好的练习——识别

sentences written in the active and passive voice.

用主动语态和被动语态写的句子。

Now, let's move on.

现在，让我们继续吧。

You now have a basic understanding  of active and passive voice. 

您现在对主动语态和被动语态有了基本的了解。

But you're not done yet.

但你还没有完成。

Because you have homework.

因为你有作业。

You are going to change this active voice  

你要把这个主动语态

sentence into a passive one.

句子改为被动语态句子。

‘Mike taught the passive voice.’

“迈克教被动语态。”

Again, change this sentence into a passive voice  sentence and write it in the comments below. 

再次，将这句话改为被动语态句子，写在下面的评论中。

Also, you have a quiz.

另外，你还有一个测验。

You will find a link for the quiz in the description.

您将在说明中找到测验的链接。

Please make sure that you ‘like’ the video as well as subscribe if you want to see more videos by me.

如果您想观看我的更多视频，请确保您“喜欢”该视频并订阅。

Until then, I’ll see you in the next video.

在那之前，我们将在下一个视频中见到您。