Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions, Premium by Dorothy Richmond

Author:Dorothy Richmond
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2016-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

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The passive voice with inanimate objects

We often speak of actions that take place for which there is no—or at least no apparent—human element involved in the action, for example, “My car breaks down on me every winter.” We also refer to actions that clearly are performed by humans, but for which the mention of those humans is irrelevant, for example, “The store opens at 10:00.”

In such situations, we use the passive voice, which allows us to ignore the performer of the action and focus on the action itself. If the noun is singular, use the singular form of the verb; if the noun is plural, use the plural form.

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