Estrellas y famosos: 'ser + past participle + por'
I can understand passive sentences and respond to unprepared questions about film and cinema.
Estrellas y famosos: 'ser + past participle + por'
I can understand passive sentences and respond to unprepared questions about film and cinema.
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Key learning points
- In passive sentences, the focus is on what is done rather than who is doing it.
- Some passive sentences in Spanish use 'ser' + past participle.
- In passive sentences with 'ser', the past participle must agree in gender and number with the noun it acts on.
- The word 'por' means 'by' when it appears after 'ser' + past participle.
- Unprepared questions often focus on opinions and past experiences.
Keywords
Passive - verb construction that focuses on what is done rather than who does it
Past participle - past tense verb form often used in the passive; in English this normally ends in -ed
Ser + past participle + por - Spanish passive structure meaning 'to be + past participle + by'
Common misconception
Past participles do not have gender and number marking.
In passive sentences with 'ser' + past participle, the past participle must agree in number with the noun it acts on.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
beauty
shirt
construction
discrimination
imagination
report
written
done, made
seen
adopted
sent
recorded