ShmoopTube

00:00

Thank you We sneak in then here's your shmoop du

00:05

jour brought to you by the passive voice Like what

00:08

you use when you can't bother to get off the

00:10

couch to grab your pizza and while we drive All

00:13

right first read sent below from a letter of recommendation

00:18

green program device tell me All right Now collect the

00:25

drop down menu and choose the option that correctly completes

00:27

the sentence and the options are here I don't get

00:31

turned on company time Okay well apparently professor greenwald stop

00:37

short of teaching syntax because most of these sentences are

00:40

flat out awkward like dating a french mind Awkward I

00:47

tried that pretty our most of these use the passive

00:50

voice that's when the object of an active sentence appears

00:53

is the subject of a sentence like the food was

00:57

eaten way don't know who did the eating This is

01:00

great if you want to hide responsibility but not so

01:03

good for sentence clarity Active voices usually preferable A noun

01:08

performs in action like i ate food Let's look at

01:12

some of these options here Getting over my nerves and

01:15

facilitating discussion We're helped Yikes This is pretty convoluted I

01:19

was helped there's a letter of rec not a business

01:22

memo and we should know who's Doing what same with

01:25

the my nerves were gotten over How about i got

01:29

over my nerves and like who says god's anyway just

01:32

a new bad word All right well this leaves answer

01:35

b a concisely written sentence in the active voice which

01:38

clearly lets us know that greenwald helped the student Is

01:42

that correct Answer isn't the active voice helpful It could

01:45

probably help with that whole pizza situation to make someone 00:01:49.271 --> [endTime] else get it

Full Transcript