I was born – passive voice

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 move the object [...]

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C’est quoi, la voix passive?

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 à éliminer un [...]

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