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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
difference - Inform about vs Inform of vs Inform on - English . . . In the active voice "Inform on" is strongly associated with the meaning of criminal implication given above However, in the passive it merely indicates an area of coverage For example, "He is well informed on a wide variety of topics " simply indicates a person whose knowledge covers many areas
grammar - English Language Learners Stack Exchange A and B are misformed passives: the direct object of inform is the person informed, not the information, so "the police" must be the subject of the passive form In British English, D is overwhelmingly more natural than C (the question doesn't arise whether police is a plural or a collective, because we often use a plural verb with a collective, especially if we are thinking in terms of the
prepositions - Inform of or Inform about - English Language Learners . . . Why wasn't I informed about this earlier? Walters was not properly informed of the reasons for her arrest It is with great sorrow that I inform you of the death of our director Companies publish annual reports to inform the public about the previous year's activities efforts to inform young people about the dangers of drugs