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It isn’t good to keep your friends waiting, you

know.

Mainichi san-jikan baiorin o renshū sasemasu.
I make him practice violin for three hours every
day.

Chichi wa ani ni kaisha no uebusaito o tsukurasemashita.
My father made my brother create a Web site

for his company.

10.16. Uses of the passive

If the underlying verb indicates an action that can be done
to a person, the meaning of a passive expression is

‘someone has something done to him’ or ‘someone
undergoes the action.’ The person undergoing the action is
indicated by the particle wa or ga, and the person

responsible for the action (the agent) is indicated by the

particle ni.

Kodomo ga hahaoya ni

tatakaremashita.

A child was hit by his mother.

But if the underlying verb indicates some action that

can’t be done directly to a person, like ‘dies,’ ‘quits,’ and