Passive Voice, Conditionals, and "Bridget Jones's Diary" Analysis
Passive Voice Tense Table
| Tense | Active | Passive |
|---|---|---|
| Present Simple | make(s) | is/are made |
| Present Continuous | is/are making | is/are being made |
| Present Perfect | has/have made | has/have been made |
| Past Simple | made | was/were made |
| Past Continuous | was/were making | was/were being made |
| Past Perfect | had made | had been made |
| Future Simple | will make | will be made |
| Future Perfect | will have made | will have been made |
| Modals | can make should have made | can be made should have been made |
Conditional Sentence Structure
| Condition | Form | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Zero | If + present simple / subject + present simple | Timeless |
| 1st | If + subject + present simple / subject + will + infinitive | Future |
| 2nd | If + past simple / subject + would + infinitive | Future |
| 3rd | If + subject + had + past participle / subject + would + have + past participle | Past |
"The Diary of Bridget Jones": A Review
The author of "The Diary of Bridget Jones" is Helen Fielding. She is an English writer who was born in Yorkshire. She studied at Oxford University and began work very early in the BBC. "The Diary of Bridget Jones" is a novel, a literary work in prose that tells a fictional story, and whose purpose is to cause aesthetic enjoyment to the readers by means of description or painting of events or interesting sets of characters, passions, and habits.
The book transcribes one year in the life of Bridget Jones in a diary. She is a woman in her 30s who works in publishing, lives alone, and when she begins her diary, she proposes five goals: lose weight, stop smoking, control alcohol consumption, be charming, and get a boyfriend.
The book is divided into 12 chapters, each chapter representing a month in the life of Bridget. The main characters are: Bridget; Daniel Cleaver, who is her boss and her first boyfriend (he is a funny man, but not to be trusted, and behaves badly with Bridget because he leaves her for another girl; he is a liar and cruel); and Mark Darcy, who is more serious, but more genuine. Bridget is madly in love, but does not show it, keeping his feelings to himself. Also appearing are Pam Jones and Colin Jones, the parents; Shazzer, the friend who is always swearing; Jude, the friend who is flawed in self-help books; and Tom, a homosexual friend of Bridget who she always asks for advice and trusts more than anyone.
Now I will make a brief summary of the book. At first, Bridget gets into a romance with her boss, Daniel Cleaver, but he breaks up with her because he leaves with another girl. Bridget experiences a lot of problems because her parents separate and divorce, and she must always endure phrases like "How is your love life?". Finally, after much fighting and stress, she gets a boyfriend, Mark Darcy, one of the best lawyers in the country.
In conclusion, contrary to other times, I prefer the movie to the book because I think the book is extremely monotonous and very boring. While supposed to be about the life of a person accustomed to always losing, I think the movie is much better at portraying this issue, giving large doses of humor to ridicule some situations.
I could not even finish the book, so I recommend that instead of reading it, enjoy the film.