Wednesday, January 15, 2020

meaning in context - How to identify whether the sentence is in passive voice or Simple past (state)


Sometimes in newspapers, the writer does not include the agent in the sentence. Hence it makes it very difficult to determine whether the sentence is in passive voice or in simple past tense stative.


For example:



Actual sentence "5 people were killed / injured."



Meanings:



5 people were killed/injured (in yesterday’s incident.) (Indicative)


5 people were killed/injured (by a gunman yesterday.) (Passive)






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