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Hello and welcome to Six Minute Grammar.
I'm Neil.
And I'm Rob.
Hello.
Today we're talking about the passive voice.
Yes, the passive voice.
In English, we can talk about things in both the active and passive voice.
Yes, and we're going to start with the active voice.
And here's Mike with our first example.
Pharrell Williams sang the song Happy.
And one more time.
Pharrell Williams sang the song Happy.
Pharrell Williams sang the song Happy.
Good song, isn't it, Rob?
Well, it makes me happy anyway.
And in grammatical terms, we've got the subject, Pharrell Williams,
and the verb sang, and then the object of the verb, the song Happy.
And that is an example of the active voice, because the performer of the action,