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The Passive Voice in Latin
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5:02Now PlayingUp until this point we have been learning everything in the active voice. This would be something llike: "The dog chewed the bone". But there is also the passive voice, which would turn that sentence into "The bone was chewed by the dog." This is used quite a bit in Latin for various reasons, so we need to know how to use it!
Script by Patrizia Farina, Professor of Italian at Western Connecticut State University and Purchase College.
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