castle – English Grammar Profiler

A2, PASSIVES, PAST, simple, singular / added, born, bridge, broken, brought, building, built, castle, century, church, completed, cut, filled, followed, hall, held, hit, killed, lost, meant, offered, passed, posted, recorded, set

Here’s a past simple passive example: “The church was built in 1663.” is an example of A2 passive grammar. In the English Grammar Profile, point 1 in the category of PASSIVE is: past simple affirmative after a singular subject. A search for was _vvn on iWeb corpus: 1 WAS BORN 459313 2 WAS MADE 320241 …

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