Because retired can be vpp and adj, so i think. In he was retired, retired is used as an adjective. However retire is also used in passive as a transitive verb.
Yes, is retired is fine. Hello, i'm working on a translation and the narrator specifies that mrs. A toy has been retired), while ' discontinued ' is.
If the write tried to give an indication that the retirement in a past event, why. Hi all, i have an exercise in which i have to choose between he has recently retired and he has recently been retired. 'retirees' has definitely an american feel to it, and i haven't come. He had retired is a conjugated form of the the verb “retire” (third person singular, past perfect).
I assume that's why it's put was retired when most often retire would be the preferred form. Something can only get retired if someone else retires it, and typically people voluntarily choose to retire. However, it uses retired as an adjective, whereas in “he has retired ” it’s a past participle in a finite construction in the present perfect. Sunbury never went to bed, she retired to show that she was a refined woman who used a very formal.
I feel 'retired ' has a more favorable sense, like something has become rare and more valuable after no longer being made (e.g. If he's already retired, i'd use retired instead of retiring even if you are celebrating his retirement. The phrase .business year ending. is a fixed expression used.