I consider myself pretty skilled at detecting passive voice and knowing when to use it.
However I was reading, and I came across the phrase, "The arrows were falling."
For some reason, this sentence triggers passive to me, because I was taught in school that *usually* passive construction is "be+verbed," and that "by" is often a good indicator.
However, is this just simply the imperfect (if that's the right tense I'm thinking of) and active. Because a passive construction would be "The arrows were felled by their archers." Or something along those lines....I don't even know if "felled" is a verb haha, maybe "loosed" is better, not that it makes the sentence any good.
I know a "be" verb doesn't *always* indicate passive voice, and I have a feeling this is one of those scenarios where it is active and uses "to be" but I can't think of a passive sentence without "to be" in it.
Sorry for the finicky question, but it's just been in the back of my mind
However I was reading, and I came across the phrase, "The arrows were falling."
For some reason, this sentence triggers passive to me, because I was taught in school that *usually* passive construction is "be+verbed," and that "by" is often a good indicator.
However, is this just simply the imperfect (if that's the right tense I'm thinking of) and active. Because a passive construction would be "The arrows were felled by their archers." Or something along those lines....I don't even know if "felled" is a verb haha, maybe "loosed" is better, not that it makes the sentence any good.
I know a "be" verb doesn't *always* indicate passive voice, and I have a feeling this is one of those scenarios where it is active and uses "to be" but I can't think of a passive sentence without "to be" in it.
Sorry for the finicky question, but it's just been in the back of my mind