Difference between these two sentences?

Here is a story with the word hurt.

A boy was riding a bicycle and crashed. He fell down on the street.

I ran to him and asked, "Are you hurt?"

He said, "I hit my head. My head is bleeding. It hurts."

I take the boy to the doctor. I say to the doctor, "He has hurt his head. Can you bandage it?"

The doctor says to the boy, "Yo

@AlpheccaStars: It seems the word "hurt" to be an Past participle adjective in your first sentence, isn't it?

Yes, the verb hurt is very irregular; hurt is the base form, the past form and the past participle.

There are 2 interpretations of the sentence "Are you hurt?"

1) It is passive voice. (Did the fall off the bike hurt you?)

2) Hurt is a predicate adjective.

Your interpretation is good, and perhaps my first thought, too, but the other interpretati

Hello.

How can "Are you hurt?" be a passive question?

The question is clearly one with a linking verb and a past participle acting as an adjective and, as such, as the predicative (or subject complement) of the verb "be."

Let's suppose for a second that the question is in the poassive voice. What, then, is its active voice counterpart?

I could understand it if t

miriam"Are you hurt?" may very well be the same structure as "Are you tired?": both questions ask about a present state.

Interesting comments....

Here is my two cents:

I think it really depends on where people learned their English. I learned two approches toward these verbs. There are many verbs that behave just like "hurt", and if they are