English · Ethics in Business
Passive voice (simple & continuous) to express result
The present passive, simple and continuous, puts the result first
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Present simple passive and present continuous passive
- Choosing passive to foreground the result/object over the agent
The method
- Passive = be + past participle; keep tense on 'be', not on the main verb
The common mistakes
- Forgetting 'be' (X counterfeited instead of X is counterfeited)
- Wrong past participle form
From the lesson
A journalist looks into a stall selling a fake watch stamped with a famous logo. She has no idea who makes it, only that copies like it appear every month.
The vocabulary
- is counterfeited (يُقلَّد)
- is being investigated (يجري التحقيق فيه)
What is not on the syllabus
- Past passive forms (treated in Education in the World, present passive)