Langue anglaise · Ethics in Business
Passive voice (simple & continuous) to express result
The present passive, simple and continuous, puts the result first
6 minutes
Le contenu académique est en arabe, comme au BAC et comme dans l’application.
Ce que le programme attend de toi
- Present simple passive and present continuous passive
- Choosing passive to foreground the result/object over the agent
La méthode
- Passive = be + past participle; keep tense on 'be', not on the main verb
Les erreurs fréquentes
- Forgetting 'be' (X counterfeited instead of X is counterfeited)
- Wrong past participle form
Extrait du cours
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.
Le vocabulaire
- is counterfeited (يُقلَّد)
- is being investigated (يجري التحقيق فيه)
Ce qui n’est pas au programme
- Past passive forms (treated in Education in the World, present passive)