This is an example of a passive form. We use the passive when it is not so important to know who the agent of the action is. Here we are not so interested in knowing who nominated Sofia Coppola ...

Most reference books say that the present perfect continuous tense has no passive form. Yet, at the same time, we have seen these sentences: 'This building has been under construction for four ...

To do this, we use the passive form of a verb and indicate who did the action, using the particle, NI. Now, let me tell you how to conjugate MASU-form verbs to the passive form. First are the ...