Everyday Passive Sentences

Use passive grammar in daily situations, including affected-passive sentences and neutral event reports.

Read passive sentences about everyday experiences.Understand the adverse or affected feeling in some passive sentences.Tell the difference between event passive and affected passive.

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Affected or adverse passive

Some passive sentences show that the subject was affected in an unpleasant or inconvenient way. This is very common in spoken Japanese and simple narratives.

私は弟にケーキを食べられました。

My little brother ate my cake on me.

電車で知らない人に足をふまれました。

A stranger stepped on my foot on the train.

犬にかまれて、病院へ行きました。

I was bitten by a dog and went to the hospital.

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