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## Si in sentences with a passive meaning 

3 Si  is also used as an impersonal subject in sentences which have a passive meaning, like this one: ‘In Nuova Zelanda si parla inglese.’ The correspond- ing sentence in English would have either a passive verb (‘English is spoken in New Zealand’) or an impersonal one (‘One speaks/They speak English in New Zealand’). 

In this type of sentence, the verb can be in either the third person singular or the third person plural. The singular is used if the noun that accompanies the verb is singular: 

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The plural is used when the noun that accompanies the verb is plural: 

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