Breakdown of Il progetto è stato presentato da parte della commissione.
essere
to be
il progetto
the project
presentare
to present, to submit
la commissione
the committee
da parte di
by (institutional or formal agent)
Questions & Answers about Il progetto è stato presentato da parte della commissione.
Why use da parte della commissione instead of just dalla commissione?
Both translate to "by the commission." However, da parte di is frequently used in the passive voice instead of just da when the agent is an institution, a collective body, or a formal group (like la commissione). It emphasizes the official source of the action and gives the sentence a slightly more formal tone.
Why does presentato end in -o if commissione is a feminine noun?
In the passive voice, the past participle always agrees in gender and number with the subject of the sentence (the entity receiving the action), not the agent performing it. Since the subject is il progetto (masculine singular), both parts of the passive verb (stato and presentato) must end in -o.
How does the phrase da parte di become da parte della here?
The phrase da parte di acts as a fixed unit, but the preposition di at the end still follows the normal rules for combining with definite articles. Because commissione is a feminine singular noun, it takes the article la. When you combine di + la, it merges to form the articulated preposition della.
Could I say Il progetto è venuto presentato... to make it passive?
No, that would be incorrect. While venire is a very common auxiliary for the passive voice in Italian (for example, Il progetto viene presentato means "The project is presented"), it can only be used in simple tenses. Because this sentence is in the passato prossimo—which is a compound tense—you are forced to use essere (è stato presentato).
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