#Hobbes (corrigez-moi)

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nimble mirageBOT
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strong terrace
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This is an impersonal construction. Personal ones would be:

  • Il a ajouté [line]
  • [line] est ajouté
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Impersonal structures are more frequent in written French, literature.

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In "il est ajouté [line]", the real subject is after the verb, the pronoun il is only apparent.

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Here, there is inversion after the line.

cerulean tiger
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i think bc it's the indirect

strong terrace
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Indirect? How so?

thorn wave
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What??

strong terrace
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That's because il doesn't represent anything, it's just there as a dummy pronoun. It's just there in impersonal constructions and the real subject is moved after the verb.
Un accident est arrivé => il est arrivé un accident
Or in this case: [line] est ajouté => il est ajouté [line]