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Jigneshbharati Posted 8 years ago
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We are pleased

Howard Taylor, Managing Director of Villa Care Group said: “We are pleased to be working in partnership with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals on this important initiative.

http://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/about-us/news-and-media/2017/01/11/partnership-agreement-to-open-ward-at-wharfedale-hospital-as-part-of-trusts-winter-plan

Is "we are pleased" a passive construction?

How do we know if "pleased" an adjective or a past participle" in a sentence?

  

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Jigneshbharati Is "we are pleased" a passive construction? Yes. Someone or something pleases us.

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  • Jigneshbharati Is "we are pleased" a passive construction?
  • Yes.
  • Someone or something pleases us.
  • But at the same time "pleased" is an adjective.
  • Sometimes it's not necessary to have only one interpretation.
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JigneshbharatiIs "we are pleased" a passive construction?

Yes. Someone or something pleases us. But at the same time "pleased" is an adjective. Sometimes it's not necessary to have only one interpretation. Sometimes it's both.

JigneshbharatiHow do we know if "pleased" an adjective or a past participle" in a sentence?
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Howard Taylor, Managing Director of Villa Care Group said: “We are pleased to be working in partnership with the Leeds Teaching Hospitals on this important initiative.

We can perform a couple of tests to determine whether "pleased" is functioning as an adjective or a verb:

First, it's a matter of our feeling pleased as a result of some ongoing situation following a previous

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