Drilling: to come(venir)

Don’t forget the ‘big three‘! Get into the habit of practising changing a verb into each of the three times, past, present, and future. You can start by translating – when you get good the French part will disappear. Don’t learn lists, though, test yourself randomly, like this: Je viens – I come Il viendra [...]

I was born – passive voice

In this video, Brian explains the uses of the passive voice in an interesting way. How are passive sentences made? Active voice someone stole my bag. In this sentence, ‘someone’ is the subject, and ‘bag’ is the object. But the most important information in the sentence is about the bag, not someone, so we can [...]