Passive Voice (Advanced)

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Passive Voice (Advanced)

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The passive voice is when a sentence is changed around to make the subject something that would normally be the object of the sentence. As a result the grammar in English and Russian is much more complex. It is rare to use the passive voice in Russian. It is better to avoid using it.
When the passive voice is used with an imperfective verb, the reflexive form is used.
Свет отражается зеркалом. - The light is reflected by the mirror.
Notice how the verb ‘reflect’ is kind of used backwards. It would be better to convert this to active voice before translating to Russian, and avoid such a complex grammar structure. (Зеркало отражает свет. - The mirror reflects the light

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