What kind of verb tense is this? 👇👇
(She was dressed in black and white)...someone told me that it's a past perfect tense, but others said it's a passive voice in the past and simple past. So I'm really confused now. 🤔🤔
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Hello Kenny!
I don't think that it is written in the passive voice because the passive voice would speak about "who" dressed her. It really is a sentence written in the past tense - "was dressed" indicates that it is past tense.
I hope that helps!
Past perfect tense wold be like this: "She was dressed in black and white after she had been told that it would look good". - one thing happened after another thing sometime in the past.
So your sentence is in the simple past/past tense.
I hope that helps!
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Exactly "She was dressed" past simple passive voice. Otherwise, it'd be "She dressed in black" - Past simple active voice. The idea of passive uses the "be+done" structure. The form of the word "be" shows the tense. So, this is the state of being verb that Phillip mentioned. It's really just an equal sign.
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Neither. Perfect = have. Past perfect = had.
Passive = Subject + verb phrase ( by someone or something)... This clause, "She was dressed" CAN be passive but is not always passive. Ex, 'My daughter, she was dressed by her mother this morning.'
It's simple past. I believe more specifically and in the world of Linguistics -someone correct me if I am wrong- your sentence is called a 'copular verb'. A verb that acts more like an equal sign. Instead of an action verb, it is a verb that describes a state or a quality. Hope this helps.
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