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## UNIT TWENTY-TWO The pronoun si 

The pronoun si  is used as an impersonal subject, either in sentences without a speci fi ed subject, or in sentences with a passive meaning. In both, it is always put before the verb. 

## Si in sentences where the subject is not specified 

1 Si  is used as an impersonal subject in sentences where the subject is not speci fi ed. It corresponds to the English ‘one’ or ‘you’ (as in ‘One never knows/You never know what’s just round the corner’), or ‘they’, meaning a number of unspeci fi ed people (as in ‘They eat kangaroo in Australia’). When si  is used in this way, the verb is always in the third person singular: 

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As the examples suggest, si  is often used for rules or general advice. 

2 With verbs like essere , diventare , sembrare , etc., followed by a noun or an adjective, si  requires the noun to be plural (even though the verb is always singular), and the adjective to be masculine plural: 

