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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 - 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
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 - 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
inform of, come to know something or aware of You are informed of something In this case, you got information from someone or something, for example another person or a letter You come to know something In this case, you didn't know something, and now you do You are aware of something In this case, it is just something that you know They are not really interchangeable, though its possible in some context