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While there are various tenses to elaborate on the time frame in which an action takes place, there is also such a thing as a type of voice; active or passive. An active voice establishes the subject as part...

A direct object pronoun is used after a subject and a verb in a sentence, conveying who/what is carrying out the action portrayed. i.e Anna was eating the cookies. In this sentence, "Anna" is the s...

Passato prossimo is a past tense that describes an action that has happened and is now over, i.e. a complete action. Example : il mercoledi sono andata a scuola - on Wed I went to school (happened once and i...

Generally you can say that the conditional mood is translated by "would + infinitive" for the present and "would have + infinitive" for the past.

The translation of the imperfect tense would be "I used to do/ I was doing". Hence, this tense would be used to describe an action in the past that had an unspecified starting or finishing time, it...