tense - Were informed or just informed? - English Language Learners . . . The sentence is in passive form and happened in the past ( past passive tense) When you say "I was informed" it is in past passive tense and means somebody informed you of something But when you say "I informed" it is in simple past tense and means you yourself informed others of something
Difference between inform of and inform that If you have a verb like "to inform someone of <something>" and change the construction using a that-clause, the preposition (of etc) is dropped The prepositions remain before clauses with "what" I informed her that I was unwell and could not come to her party He informed us of what had happened
grammar - At no time, was I informed - looking for an explanation . . . B At no time was I informed was is an auxiliary verb, not a lexical one In this example, the subject and the auxiliary verb have been inverted Among other uses of subject–auxiliary inversion is the formation of sentences beginning with a negation, as in the following (b) examples from Wikipedia a Sam will relax at no time b