ON THE CORRELATION OF MEANINGS OF PASSIVE AND ACTIVE VOICES AND TENSE FORMS OF THE VERB IN THE FRENCH LANGUAGE
The category of voice has long been one of the central issues of French theoretical grammar. The existence of the passive voice in the French language as a morphological category is often questioned. The analysis of examples from literature and legal texts leads to the conclusion that the passive voice is a lexico-grammatical category in which semantics, morphology and syntax interact most closely.