This week, Tim continues and completes his deep analysis of the passive voice, identifying and clarifying six unusual and advanced passive constructions.
Three of these constructions (for example, replacing BE with GET) are typical of conversational English, so learning them can help you understand and use everyday language with better accuracy and confidence. The other three constructions are common in written and formal English, and will help you understand the news and intelligent conversation in greater detail.

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In English, we have two ways of constructing sentences- the active voice and the passive voice. The active voice is the standard, common way to build sentences, while we use the passive voice most commonly in written and academic English. In other words- if you want to understand and use English at an advanced level- then you need the passive voice!
Every passive voice sentence includes a past participle. So now is a great time to listen to Episode #115 on irregular past participles, and also Episode #116 on common pronunciation difficulties with regular past participles.

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The internet and textbooks typically use the EXTENSIVE method to explain grammar. This means they use lots of situations and examples to explain each construction. But we also have the rarely used INTENSIVE method, where you learn one construction with deep, intense focus on one example. If you're learning a new construction, the intensive method gives you a single deeply understood sentence to use as a model for understanding other sentences. If you're reviewing or checking, the intensive way makes sure you understand everything in detail, and fixes mistakes in your understanding.
Listen to Episode 118, where Tim uses the intensive method with slightly different versions of the same sentence to learn or review an important meaning of the present perfect verb tense in depth and detail.
If you have not listened to episodes 115, 116, and 117 on past participles and the present perfect already- now is the perfect time to do that!
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PS- Tim is experiencing some technical difficulties with his sound equipment, so the episode contains some minor sound problems that do not affect the lesson's content. Tim will rerecord the episode ASAP (as soon as possible).

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