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