🇬🇧 Past Simple Passive Voice - English B1 lesson 46 Intermediate
In this lesson, we focus on how to form and use the Past Simple Passive.
🔑 Key points:
• The Past Simple Passive is formed with:
Subject + was / were + past participle
👉 The cake was baked. / The letters were sent.
• Just like the Present Simple Passive, we use the Past Simple Passive when the action is more important than the person who did it.
👉 The new law was passed yesterday.
• It’s often used in formal speech and written reports.
👉 The results were announced at the meeting.
• Remember:
◦ Use was for singular subjects and were for plurals.
◦ The verb be in the passive cannot be contracted.
◦ For questions, invert the subject and be:
👉 Was it introduced last year?
💬 Practice Task:
Rewrite this active sentence in the Past Simple Passive:
➡️ The chef cooked a delicious meal.
Post your answer in the comments!
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In order to make the most of those lessons, it is best to follow the whole series in order starting from video 1.
Chapters:
00:00 Hello and welcome
00:12 Vocabulary
00:41 Which explanation is true (examples of past simple passive.)
04:29 Concept check: Past simple passive
05:08 Identify the passive form / How is it formed
07:26 Choose the active or passive form
09:53 Thank you, todays task and goodbye.