How to Use the PASSIVE VOICE | English Homework + Quiz Learn English Grammar

Hello, everyone.

大家好。

Welcome back to Shaw English.

欢迎回到Shaw English。

My name is Mike.

我叫麦克。

And today, I’m going to continue teaching you about the active and passive voice and

今天，我将继续教您主动语态和被动语态以及

when and how to use it.

何时以及如何使用它。

Now, I know this can be quite challenging,

现在，我知道这可能相当具有挑战性，

but I know you're also doing your best and you're doing a good job.

但我知道你也在尽力而为，而且做得很好。

Make sure you stay until the end of the video because you will have homework and a quiz.

请确保您坚持到视频结束，因为您将有作业和测验。

Are you ready to get started?

你准备好开始了吗？

All right, let's do it.

好吧，我们开始吧。

One of the main reasons why we use passive voice is because we want to emphasize

我们使用被动语态的主要原因之一是我们想强调

the receiver instead of the doer.

接受者而不是执行者。

For example, “Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.”

例如，“达芬奇画了蒙娜丽莎。”

In this sentence, which is an active voice,

在这句话中，这是一个主动语态，

Leonardo is our focus, the painter.

达芬奇是我们的焦点，画家。

The Mona Lisa, the painting, is the receiver.

《蒙娜丽莎》这幅画是接收者。

We want to switch them to where now the receiver is in the beginning sentence and the doer is at the end.

我们想将它们切换到现在接收者在开头句子中而执行者在结尾处的位置。

So now our sentence is, “The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo DaVinci.”

所以现在我们的句子是，“蒙娜丽莎是由莱昂纳多·达芬奇画的。”

Our focus is now on the receiver, the Mona Lisa, rather than the painter, Leonardo DaVinci.

我们现在的重点是接收者蒙娜丽莎，而不是画家达芬奇。

Another reason that we change the sentence to the passive voice, is because we do not

我们将句子改为被动语态的另一个原因是我们不

know the doer of the action.

知道动作的执行者。

For example, “Somebody stole my cell phone.”

例如，“有人偷了我的手机。”

I do not know who.

我不知道是谁。

So instead, I can express this in the passive voice.

因此，我可以用被动语态来表达这一点。

“My cell phone was stolen.”

“我的手机被偷了。”

And again, since we don't really know who did it,

再说一次，由于我们并不真正知道是谁干的，

we want to focus more on the phone instead.

所以我们希望更多地关注手机。

“My phone was stolen.”

“我的手机被偷了。”

Another reason to use the passive voice could be the doer is just not that important.

使用被动语态的另一个原因可能是执行者并不那么重要。

For example, “The company was founded in 1955.”

例如，“该公司成立于 1955 年。”

We may or may not know who founded the company, but is not important.

我们可能知道也可能不知道是谁创办了这家公司，但这并不重要。

What is important is that the company was founded in 1955.

重要的是，该公司成立于1955年。

Also, “The house was built in 1955.”

而且，“房子建于1955年”。

We may or may not know who built the house.

我们可能知道也可能不知道这所房子是谁建造的。

But again, it's not important.

但话又说回来，这并不重要。

What is important is the house was built in 1955.

重要的是房子建于 1955 年。

Another reason to use the passive voice is because

使用被动语态的另一个原因是因为

sometimes we don't want to blame or say someone is responsible for something.

有时我们不想责备或说某人对某事负责。

For example, “Mistakes were made.”

例如，“犯了错误。”

Now, mistakes were made by someone,

现在，错误是由某人犯的，

but we don't want to blame that person.

但我们不想责怪那个人。

We don't want to say it is their fault. So instead,

我们不想说这是他们的错。因此，

we just leave them off and say,

我们只是忽略它们并说：

“Mistakes were made.”

“犯了错误。”

Another reason to use the passive voice is because

使用被动语态的另一个原因是因为

the doer is not a specific person.

行为者不是特定的人。

For example, “English is spoken in many countries around the world.”

例如，“世界上许多国家都说英语。”

We could add “by many people”

我们可以添加“由许多人”

but because it's a really an unspecified group of people,

，但因为它实际上是一个未指定的人群，所以

we kind of just leave it off because it's not very necessary.

我们有点忽略它，因为它不是很有必要。

And the last reason why we use passive voice,

我们使用被动语态的最后一个原因

is for academic writing.

是为了学术写作。

Whenever you're doing academic writing, such as essays or articles,

每当您进行学术写作（例如论文或文章）时，

we want to make it as least personal as possible

我们都希望使其尽可能不那么个人化

and as professional as possible.

并尽可能专业。

“I interviewed three people.”

“我采访了三个人。”

Well you can see we have the pronoun ‘I’.

好吧，你可以看到我们有代词“我”。

Well we don't want to use that.

好吧，我们不想使用它。

We want to switch the sentence over to the passive voice.

我们想把句子改成被动语态。

“Three people were interviewed.”

“采访了三个人。”

I could say “by me”

我可以说“由我”，

but again, we want to take out the ‘I’ and 'MEs' make it less personal as possible

但同样，我们希望去掉“我”和“我”，使其尽可能不那么个人化

and just have “Three people were interviewed.”

，而只是“采访了三个人”。

Let's move on.

让我们继续。

Awesome job, everyone.

干得好，大家。

I know you did such a great job. And I know it was tough.

我知道你做得很好。我知道这很艰难。

But you did it.

但你做到了。

You now have a basic understanding of the how and when to use the passive voice.

您现在已经基本了解了如何以及何时使用被动语态。

But you're not done.

但你还没有完成。

You have a little bit of homework to do.

你还有一点作业要做。

“The teacher graded the homework.”

“老师给作业评分了。”

I want you to take this sentence, change it into the passive voice, and put it in the comments.

我想让你把这句话，改成被动语态，放到评论里。

Also you have a quiz.

还有一个测验。

In the description, you will find a link to the quiz.

在描述中，您将找到测验的链接。

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And until then, I'll see you all later.

在那之前，我们稍后再见。

Bye.

再见。