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[kittydesade]

Passive voice (hey, I just wrote an essay about this):
In the active voice, the subject is the agent perfo-- blah blah blah. In everyday conversation, Germa speakers use the active voice much more often than the passive voice. The passive voice is used in instructions, recipes, and technical writing.

In English, a passive verb phrase consists of a form of the auxiliary verb 'to be' and the past participle form of the verb (e.g. asked, made, etc). In German, the passive verb phrase consists of a form of the auxiliary werden and the past participle of the main verb. The tenses you will encounter most frequently in the passive voice are the present and simple past.

Present: Ich werde gefragt.
Simple past: Ich wurde gefragt.

Was wird heute gemacht? Es ist Samstag und es gibt viel zu tun. Sagen sie, was heute alles bei Monika gemacht wird.

1. Die Wäsche wird gewascht.
2. Das Haus wird sauber gemacht.
3. Das Auto wird gewascht.
4. Die Gartenarbeit wird gemacht.
5. Das Essen wird gekocht.
6. Die Garage wird aufgeräumt.


Okay there were actually more relative clause exercises but I got bored and annoyed.


Well, a while back I ordered a few shirts from this one place that had some cheap shirts that I hoped were inexpensive rather than cheap. No, they actually are cheap, they're fairly thin and I'll be surprised if they wear well, and probably they're meant to be worn maybe once a month because other people rotate out their clothes/closets more than I do and therefore don't put their clothes through the washer as much as I do. But it's even more irritating because these were pretty much the kinds of shirts I wanted. Simple long-sleeve scoop-neck and cowl-neck shirts. Because somehow I've gotten used to being cleavagy.

Ah well. Maybe I'll just keep collecting shirts and end up being able to rotate out my shirts that much. Or something. I would like to find other inexpensive clothing sites than Kohl's, though, that have shirts I actually like. Ideeli is good for some things but it's so hit or miss.

Speaking of clothes and things, I need to get my earrings out and actually hanging and things. Not entirely sure where, hell, maybe I do need a jewelry armoire, but I need to get that done anyway. There was a vague sort of a gesture involving picture frames and backing. And I just now realized. I could do a dreamcatcher and hang my earrings on that. See, Jag, you can be smart.

Now let's see if I can also be productive today.