A2 french - recognising the passive

Helen_w

I can never see where to use the passive in the translation section of the AQA A2 exam. Help please! :frown:

Reply 1

welwyn

you can turn around lots of sentences from active to passive,
eg I ate the apple > "The apple was eaten", la pomme a été mangée.
so the object becomes the subject.
Also, there's lots of cases in describing, eg 'the man was killed,'
for AQA, do you have to use the passive?

Reply 2

PrinceOfCats

The active has a subject performing an action, 'I killed him'. Any sentence where the agent perfoming the action is not given must be passive, 'He was killed'.

Reply 3

james99

I used to remember one sentence in the passive, which would help me remember what the passive looks like in all tenses:

The door is opened (by the cleaner) - La porte est ouverte (par le nettoyeur)
The door was opened (by the cleaner) - La porte était ouverte (par le nettoyeur)
The door has been opened (by the cleaner) - La porte a été ouverte (par le nettoyeur)
The door had been opened (by the cleaner) - La porte avait été ouverte (par le nettoyeur)

Hope this helps!

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