Passive Voice

Passive.


I am required to explain about the 'PASSIVE' by Tae-Seung.
Tae-Seung required me to explain about the 'Passive'.
You can distinguish what is passive and active seeing those two sentences.

Let us define 'Passive' first of all.

the word passive means INactive which also means NOT active.
Active means, as you know, do something by oneself.
So, 'passive' means that lacking in energy or will.

The sentence form we know as the passive is PASSIVE VOICE.
It basically means the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is not the source of the action denoted by the verb.
Means that even if the subject of an event is you, the passive voice is explained in the point of object.
I think the explanation makes it more complicated.
Let me explain using some examples.

- Ji-hye pays $40 to her tutor every week.
The subject of this sentence is 'Ji-hye' and she gives $40 by herself to her tutor.
Let us see how could we make in the other sense.

-Ji-hye's tutor is paid $40 by Ji-hye every week.
In this sentence, the subject and the object are exchanged each other, but the meanings of those two sentences are same.

There are 4 types of verbs as a main verb in a sentence.
Only 1 verb can be existed in ONE sentence.
And the verb must be one of those 4 types.

1. a single verb (present forms and past forms depend on type of the subject)
   - I go Hankook university.                                      (present simple)
   - My friend became a doctor.                                (past simple)
   - My mother runs a private music academy.           (third person present simple)
   - People over there are all my friends.                    (third plural form of BE verb)

2. An auxiliary verb(or extended form of them + simple form
   - I will be a good English teacher. or I am going to be a good English teacher.
   - I must study for the final exam. or I have to study for the final exam.
   - You might have to pretend to be your father.

3. BE verb + -ing
   - I am playing a computer game, right now.

4. Past Participle forms

   4.1 A have verb and P.P
        As we saw last time, it is a form of a perfect tense.
           - I have done the same homework before.
           - He has studied in University of Korea.
           - My uncle had worked as an intern before he became a lawyer.

   4.2 A BE verb and P.P
        This form is the target of today's posting.
    
Passive seems complicated but it is not that complex.
Exchange the subject(s) and the object(s) in the sentence.
For example, if you want to say in a different view using a sentence
'Jungmin uses the lap-top computer to update the blog.'
You, firstly, should find what are subject and object on the sentence.
The subject on the example sentence is 'Jungmin'
and the object of the sentence is 'the lap-top computer'.
Now, the active sentence will be changed to a passive sentence after some simple processing.

Processing 1. exchange the position of the subject and the object each other
                    -> The lap-top computer uses Jungmin to update the blog.
Processing 2. change the form of verb to the form <BE + P.P>
                    -> The lap-top computer is used Jungmin to update the blog.
Processing 3. remove the original subject and (put it in the end of sentence with 'by').
                    -> The lap-top computer is used to update the blog.
                    -> The lap-top computer is used to update the blog by Jungmin.
                    ※ Both of two sentences up there are valid. The first sentence is called                              
                        'abbreviated passive form' which means short form.

It's that easy!!!

Let me finish here for today.
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