engVid The Passive: When, why, and how to use it
engVid The Passive: When, why, and how to use it presents a video grammar lesson in which the teacher explains why a writer reaches for the passive and how it is built in each tense. engVid publishes free video lessons by a group of English teachers, each with a quiz at the end. This lesson is aimed at intermediate and advanced learners and draws its examples from news sentences and written work.
100% Free (unlimited): Every video lesson on engVid, including this one, plays in full without an account, and the quiz at the end marks itself and shows your score. An account is offered free of charge and only keeps your progress; nothing on the lesson page is held back from a visitor who does not create one.
How It Helps Your Business English
The page holds a video lesson in which the teacher writes on a board while explaining why a writer chooses the passive, how it is formed with be and a past participle, and which tenses it appears in. Below the video sit a multiple-choice quiz and a comment thread where learners put questions to the teacher.
Watch the lesson once for the reasoning behind each choice, then replay the parts where the teacher rebuilds a sentence from active to passive. Take the quiz straight afterwards: it marks every answer and gives a score, so you can see which tenses still need work. If a point stays unclear, read the questions other learners have left under the video, where the teacher answers them.
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