Please tell me what means is it? There is a sentence I don't understand: My sister,a primary school teacher, was informed by one of her pupils that a bird had built its nest in the tree outside th

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Please tell me what means is it? There is a sentence I don't understand: My sister,a primary school teacher, was informed by one of her pupils that a bird had built its nest in the tree outside the classroom. What is the " informed by" mean in it? And what the meaning of this whole sentence?

Jun 19, 2013 3:44 AM

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"Informed by" means to tell someone information. So, in the case the student is telling the teacher something.

June 19, 2013

A was informed by B that C. B told A that C. My brother was informed by Christina that they would have a baby. Christina told my brother that they would have a baby. So in your sentence: The student told your sister about the bird that had built a nest.

June 19, 2013

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