Italian GCSE
Passive voice
What Passive voice means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Passive voice
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Reference: AQA
Formed using the appropriate tense of 'essere' or 'venire' followed by a past participle that agrees in gender and number with the subject.
Topics that use Passive voice
- Verbs (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Auxiliary verbs
- Auxiliary verbs in the imperfect
- Compound tenses
- Conditional perfect
- Descriptive language
- Everyday conversational phrases
- Expressing desires and wishes
- Formal and informal registers
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