Was discovered reflects passive voice. The verb shows no action.
The verb does show action but the sentence doesn't tell us who did the action, compare with this active sentence:
Charlie Brown discovered the north west passage to India.
Or if you want, in a passive sentence you can put the agent (doer of the verb ) at the end of the sentence:
The north west passage to India was discovered by Charlie Brown .
(Sorry my history knowledge is not good)
The verb "was discovered" in the sentence is in the passive voice.
He mistook her for a foreigner because of her accent.
You came from India, didn't you? For a positive statement use a negative tag. You didn't come from India, did you? For a negative statement use a positive tag.
The Dutch colonies were founded by the Dutch East India Company, a trading company established in the early 17th century. They established colonies in regions such as present-day Indonesia, Suriname, and the Caribbean.
To write a declarative interrogative sentence, you can start with a statement and follow it with a question. For example: "You are going to the party, right?" This type of sentence combines the structure of a declarative statement with the function of asking a question.
The development of the Malayalam language is attributed to a group of early Tamil traders who settled in the region in the 9th century. It evolved from Tamil and Sanskrit influences to become the distinct language spoken in the Kerala region of India today.
This sentence is in the passive voice because the subject (a northwest passage to India) is receiving the action (was discovered) instead of performing the action.
passive A+
Was discovered reflects passive voice. The verb shows no action.The verb does show action but the sentence doesn't tell us who did the action, compare with this active sentence:Charlie Brown discovered the north west passage to India.Or if you want, in a passive sentence you can put the agent (doer of the verb ) at the end of the sentence:The north west passage to India was discovered by Charlie Brown .(Sorry my history knowledge is not good)
Was discovered reflects passive voice. The verb shows no action.The verb does show action but the sentence doesn't tell us who did the action, compare with this active sentence:Charlie Brown discovered the north west passage to India.Or if you want, in a passive sentence you can put the agent (doer of the verb ) at the end of the sentence:The north west passage to India was discovered by Charlie Brown .(Sorry my history knowledge is not good)
He discovered North and South America while looking for a Northwest passage to India
He was searching for the Northwest Passage. Goal was to get to India from the north.
he was looking for the northwest passage
a shortcut to India and china
a shortcut to India and china
India via the Northwest Passage
a shortcut to India and china
Jacques Cartier was looking for the northwest passage to get to India and the spice islands, but didn't know that a huge chunk of land lay in his way, so he accidentally discovered Canada