switched/turned off is passive?
1.Please make sure that your phone is switched/ turned off during exam
2.There were lots of messages on my mobile which had been switched/turned off
in two sentences,switched /turned off is passive? or state? how to differentiate them？
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1. 'Switched' describes the state that the phones should be in during the exam. The action of switching off does not occur during the exam, so it can't be a passive. 'Switched' can be viewed as a kind of adjectival form that describes the state of the phones.
2. This is a passive form, because you could reword it as 'my mobile which someone had switched off'.
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