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