The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top.
O drugim młodzieńcu mówiono, że był mniej więcej w tym samym wieku i był ubrany w jasnokolorową bluzkę. C
STRUCTURAL CONTRAST
E:
the - article
was - auxiliary verb
P:
o - preposition w - preposition
FUNCTIONAL CONTRAST
E:
The second youth - subject
P:
Subjectless construction (in the main
clause)
cL'Cxim^a^u^-\
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CATEGORIAL CONTRAST E:
about - preposition wearing - active participle to be - infmitive P:
mniej więcej - adverb (degrees of comparisł^n), includes two numerals ubrany - passive participle był - past verb form
MORPHOSYNTACTIC CONTRAST
E:
was said - finite verb form P:
mówiono - non-finite verb form