FRIT-F 313 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Eugenius Warming, Le Monde, Infinitive

• School: IU
• Department: French And Italian
• Course: FRIT-F 313
• Professor: Okamoto Mac Phail Aiko

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Notes de chapitre 18- passive voice and passive phrases. Active voice- subject does action expressed by verb. Passive voice- subject receives action expressed by verb. Un comit valuera les candidats. (futur simple actif) Les candidats seront valu s par un comit . (futur simple passif) La police a retrouv le criminel. (pass compos actif) Le criminel a t retrouv par la police. (pass compos passif) Normally, only transitive verbs having do can be put in passive. Ob ir/d sobeir qqn and pardonner qqn can be passive: ex. Il (cid:374)"est jamais ob i de personne. (cid:894)he does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a(cid:374)(cid:455) authority; he is never obeyed by anyone. : ex. Ils ont t pardonn s. (they were pardoned [in legal sense]. ) With few exceptions, when verb has no do or is intransitive/pronominal, cannot be put in passive. Valoir, pouvoir, and avoir do not have passive forms: formation. Conjugate tre in correct tense, add past participle.