#active sentence

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What is passive sentences in Japanese?

This page summarizes only the essential points of the Japanese passive sentence and causative sentence. Let’s start with a passive sentence.

＜There are two types of passive sentences＞

Direct passive statement: An active sentence directly corresponds to an active sentence, such as “~” in the active sentence becomes “~” in the passive sentence. Ex. シマウマは　ライオンに　おそわれた。Zebra was attacked by a…

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Active Sentence

A sentence which describes an action from the agent's point of view.

What Does That Mean?

It talks about whatever the Agent’s doing, like when you tell your friends “Man, that Liang chick is chugging those beers like they were water. She’s on her 7th…8th…9th…I totally lost count”

EX: So you wanna know how got I home last night when I was flat broke and had no train fare?, do you? If you must know, some guy paid for my ticket on the last train home. Didn't even get to catch a glimpse of the guy's face before he went off. All I know is that he was on a train with a bunch kids from some convention about those weird Japanese toons. I guessed as much from the all the crazy hair styles and costumes they were wearing. But hey, if being a fan of crap breeds that kind of consideration and kindness I'll bite the bullet and watch a few myself, even if the majority of that crap is misogynistic and about as substantional as cotton candy