called and made here are actually in the "passive voice". (other more technically astute teachers might correct me here). structure: Subject + to be (conjugated) + past participle + rest of sentence So i think you might want to ask your english teacher (or google) for a class on the passive voice. If you google "active voice versus passive voice" you will get the important basics for yourself.

They're both in the Present Simple tense. What you're confused about is that they're in the Passive voice rather than in the Active voice.

In both cases the only verb is “is”. Present tense. The past participles are not part of the verb. They act as adjectives.

Right. They are in passive voice, It can be used with all tenses, but only transitive verbs, those ones that requires an object to receive an action.

Hi Michael, there are lots of standard phrases in English which use this structure to be +past tense verb I just put a query into ChatGPT and got a list of some of the most common ones. To be gone - the chicken I put on the table is gone. To be lost - I am lost. Should I turn left or right? Who knows. To be stolen - OMG, my purse has been stolen. To be killed - many people are killed every year by mosquitoes. To be broken - I'm so unhappy. I think my iPhone is broken. To be injured - he fell off his horse and was injured. To be damaged - I dropped my tablet, and now the screen is damaged. To be used - this kitchen implement is used to blend the soup. To be worn - hats and scarves are not worn in summer. To be born - She was born in 1964. I hope that helps