00:00:04series so how do we use the passive for
00:00:11different times tenses in English we
00:00:14need all the pieces of grammar to make
00:00:17the sentence correct in this lesson
00:00:20we’ll be using this example first we
00:00:24need to remember how to make a passive
00:00:27sentence remember we need the verb be
00:00:31and the verb needs to be in the past
00:00:34participle or verb 3 form
00:00:38so let’s start with past simple that’s
00:00:41easy enough we’ve got the subject I the
00:00:44action is a rest but remember this is
00:00:46passive so we need to include that
00:00:48grammar the verb be in this case if it’s
00:00:51past it follows the subject I so I was
00:00:56the verb becomes the past participle
00:00:58arrested but how about present perfect
00:01:05that’s more difficult because we need
00:01:07have and the past participle to form
00:01:10present perfect and for passive we need
00:01:13be and the past participle what the help
00:01:16to past participles that’s confusing
00:01:21just remember it’s the passive B which
00:01:25changes with the tense so for present
00:01:28perfect what do you think would be
00:01:35it’s this so I have being be took the
00:01:43past participle that forms the present
00:01:46perfect the be and the past participial
00:01:50arrests dead that covers the passive so
00:01:54you see we use all the pieces of the
00:01:56grammar so there next one
00:01:59imagine this action is happening right
00:02:01now for an action happening now which
00:02:05form do we use that’s right present
00:02:10continuous now present continuous we
00:02:13need B and ing so apply the same logic
00:02:17to this present continuous passive
00:02:22sentence the action is arrest we need to
00:02:27show it’s happening now so I’m in that
00:02:30covers present continuous B and past
00:02:33participle arrest ed that shows it’s
00:02:36passive so it becomes I am being
00:02:39arrested
00:02:42how about past perfect you try this one
00:02:45I believe in you
00:02:47past perfect we need had and a past
00:02:50participle passive we need B and a past
00:02:53participle I had been arrested had in
00:03:00that’s past perfect we’ve still got B
00:03:03and arrested for the passive what about
00:03:07past perfect continuous passive
00:03:14I’ve been being arrested that doesn’t
00:03:17sound right
00:03:18to be honest in this tense it’s much
00:03:21more common to change being for getting
00:03:23I’d been getting arrested for example
00:03:27it’s not often you’d say that sentence
00:03:29or just leaving it as past perfect
00:03:32simple passive that’s the end of today’s
00:03:36class I’ll see you next time
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