December 4, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
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 [...]
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Tags: Grammar, I was born, je suis né en anglais, passive voice, voix passive |
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March 25, 2009 | Posted by profanglais
Two types of sentences – active and passive: ACTIVE: A colleague gave me a file : un collègue m’a donné un dossier PASSIVE: I was given a file : On m’a donné un dossier La voix passive est donc un langage plus soutenu que la voix active, qui est plus familier. Mais elle sert également [...]
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Tags: voix passive |
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