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Mandarin · Chapter 26 · Lesson 14 · Grammar primer

The spoken passives: 让, 叫, 给

What people actually say instead of 被. The adversity bias, the rule that 让 and 叫 must name a doer (with 人 as the placeholder), the stacked 被...给..., and two tests for telling a passive from a causative.

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