The passive voice with sushi

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expected to use

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a variety of expressions like this to

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talk about future events. The next

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construction I want to talk about is the

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passive voice, and I want to talk about

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sushi. I love all the random topics like

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the environment, fitness. Next topic,

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sushi. Here we go. B1, the sushi was

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prepared by a top chef. The B2, it is

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widely believed that sushi originally

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comes from Japan. And C1, Jack recalled

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having been told that sushi actually

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originated in China. Remember, we use

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the passive voice to shift the focus

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from the subject performing an action to

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the subject receiving an action. In the

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B1 sentence, you can see a sentence in

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the passive voice in the past simple.

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Was prepared. For B2, we can see an

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impersonal passive construction. It is

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widely believed that. We use this

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construction to say that people believe

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this, but not necessarily the speaker.

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It's very diplomatic. A politician might

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use it. And at C1, we see a passive ing

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form. Recalled having been told. The

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verb to recall is followed by an ing

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verb