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Hello and I hope you and yours and the team are all doing well.

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Would it be safe to say that this comes under the umbrella of the "passive" and if not, why?

Thank you!

Nicole

Asked 3 years ago
InmaKwiziq team member

Hola Nicole,

Thanks, I hope you are OK too. 

In this lesson you mention we are mainly talking about a type of impersonal sentence using the they form without considering the subject as something relevant, e.g. "Llaman a la puerta." -> Someone is knocking on the door. This type of sentence is not a passive sentence. We can't put it into a passive and if we do it would sound very weird: "The door was knocked by someone ??"

These specific impersonal sentences are called "oraciones impersonales eventuales u ocasionales". 

I hope this helps,

Inma

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Hello and I hope you and yours and the team are all doing well.

Re: This lesson;|
Would it be safe to say that this comes under the umbrella of the "passive" and if not, why?

Thank you!

Nicole

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