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10Not understand. Please kindly explain.02br
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0 The meeting place is changed from ABC to CDE. - this sounds as though it just spontaneously happened and no-one was involved in making the change.02br
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002. The meeting place has been changed from ABC to CDE. Someone changed the arrangements for the meeting place.02br
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0 I have dealt with this before, I just can't remember when and in which thread. I don't know what your nationality and native language is, Anonymous, but I assume that you speak a language in which there is always a distinct difference between 01b00state02b00 and 01b00action02b00 in the passive voice; in other words, there is more than one passive

0Hi, Nona.02br
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00I do agree that No. 2 is a better answer but I cannot dispel the notion that the sentence "The meeting place is changed from ABC to CDE" is also acceptable in that people might use to express the approximilarly the same notion as No. 2.02br
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00When people say, "The meeting place is changed from ABC to CDE", 01u00it is p

0OK, using logic you know that it can't have spontaneously happened. Meetings don't just change themselves; someone must have changed it.02br
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00However, that is what is suggested by the structure of that sentence. In this context, yes, we can work out that someone made the change. In other contexts though, using this incorrectly could lead to great confusion, so it's bes

The meeting place has been changed from ABC to CDE.