Wednesday, July 18, 2018

How to identify if sentence is passive Voice or Indicative sentence?


Examples:



"One car was parked outside of the gate."
"Your work volume is increased or not"

"He was arrested"
"She was raped"
"After accident he was taken to hospital"
"He was informed about this"
“My heart was broken”



All above statements can be in the stative form if we do not mentioned the agent. But if we use the agent i.e. By Driver, By Boss, By Police, By boyfriend, By friend, By father, By husband respectively, then sentence become as passive voice.


My questions are a) How to quickly make out whether a sentence is in the passive voice or just a simple sentence (Stative)?


B) If i use had been in above sentence does it mean the same?




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