Ch 25 · Lesson 4Spanish · Chapter 25 · Lesson 4 · Grammar primer
Passive with ser
Prescribed by the AQA specification.
The short version
happened, just is
.
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plus a participle reports an event; plus the same participle describes the state it left behind. means somebody shut it. just means it is shut, no event in view. The quick test: if you are reporting the event itself, when it happened or who did it, you want .
In the
escrita Cervantes.
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The passive is in any tense plus a past participle, and the participle agrees with the subject like an adjective: , escrita, escritas. The doer, if you name one, comes in with .
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