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Uses:
Uses:
*To construct a "normal" passive (from an English perspective) - subject and object switched
*To construct a "normal" passive (from an English perspective) - object promoted to subject, subject turned into prepositional phrase (the passive without a prepositional phrase is constructed using an indefinite prefix as the subject and the object remains in the object position)
*"The bread is baking" - transitive verb - here the object prefix is omitted
*"The bread is baking" - transitive verb - here the object prefix is omitted
*"Aquí se habla español" - used with the indefinite subject prefix
*"Aquí se habla español" - used with the indefinite subject prefix