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Michael
These sentences, in what tense are they?
- He is called by his nickname.
- This food is made with pork.
I have not found any tense in English that has that structure:
Subject + verb to be + verb (simple past) + Complement.
Please help me.
2023年3月24日 19:40
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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.
2023年3月24日
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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.
2023年3月24日
1
In both cases the only verb is “is”. Present tense. The past participles are not part of the verb. They act as adjectives.
2023年3月25日
1
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.
2023年3月25日
1
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
2023年3月24日
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