Questi dipinti sono stati esposti e molto apprezzati.

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Why are there three verbs together (sono stati esposti) to say "were exhibited"?
This is the passive voice in a compound tense like the passato prossimo. To form it, you take the auxiliary verb essere and put it in the passato prossimo (sono stati), then add the past participle of your main verb (esposti).
Why do both stati and esposti end in -i?
In the passive voice, because it is built with essere, every past participle must agree with the subject in gender and number. Since questi dipinti is masculine plural, both the auxiliary's participle (stati) and the main verb's participle (esposti) must take the masculine plural -i ending.
What is the infinitive form of the verb esposti?
It is the irregular past participle of esporre, which means to exhibit or to expose. Most verbs ending in -porre follow a similarly irregular pattern for their past participles.
Why does the second part of the sentence say molto apprezzati instead of repeating sono stati?
Just like in English, when you connect two passive verbs with e (and) that share the exact same subject and tense, you can drop the auxiliary verbs for the second one to avoid repeating yourself. The sono stati carries over to apprezzati automatically.
Since the subject is plural, why doesn't molto change to molti?
In this sentence, molto is acting as an adverb modifying the verb apprezzati (meaning much or highly appreciated). Adverbs are invariable, meaning their endings never change. It would only become molti if it were an adjective directly describing a noun, such as molti dipinti (many paintings).

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