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are received? vs were received?

Both "are received?" and "were received?" are correct, but they are used in different contexts. "Are received?" is used in the present tense to ask about something that is currently being received, while "were received?" is used in the past tense to ask about something that was received in the past.

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are received?

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to ask about something that is currently being received.

Use "are received?" in the present tense to ask about something that is currently being received. For example, "Are the documents received by the office?"

Examples:

  • Are the packages received by the warehouse?
  • Are the emails received by the server?
  • Are the payments received by the company?
  • Are the orders received by the store?
  • Are the messages received by the recipient?
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  • Jan 5, 2018 ... thank for your replay .. we are received means what problem will face.. any grammatical mistakes is there? pls guide me.. Last edited by a ...
  • email never stops synchronizing so so new emails are received. Mail · Rafeek December 6, 2016, 4:16pm 1. eM Client stops receiving emails at least once a ...
  • Output Bang when two bangs are received (and operator). MaxMSPbeginner · ZeroValue's icon. ZeroValue. Apr 3, 2021, 1:42 PM. Hi,. for a patch I need to use ...
  • Jun 13, 2023 ... Outlook emails are received one day later ... Someone at work is having issues with receiving certain emails. He is receiving those emails almost ...
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  • Mar 19, 2022 ... Some emails are received in Yahoo but not in Outlook. I have Outlook 2013 and I receive 99% of my emails there. If I choose, I can also log ...

Alternatives:

  • Is it received?
  • Are they being received?
  • Are they getting received?
  • Are they being received?
  • Are they coming in?

were received?

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to ask about something that was received in the past.

Use "were received?" in the past tense to ask about something that was received in the past. For example, "Were the documents received by the office yesterday?"

Examples:

  • Were the packages received by the warehouse last week?
  • Were the emails received by the server yesterday?
  • Were the payments received by the company on time?
  • Were the orders received by the store yesterday?
  • Were the messages received by the recipient?
  • ... were received."). I've turned off iptables on the nagios box, so it's not a firewall issue (if it was I doubt wireshark would've seen the reply packet). I ...
  • ... intermittently-reporting-no-pixel-dimensions-were-received. Expand Post. UpvoteUpvotedRemove Upvote Reply 1 upvote. adel metzler (Member). 3 years ago.
  • Jan 7, 2022 ... Here's a copied message. [Netcode] Deferred messages were received for NetworkObject #2, but it did not spawn within 1 second. NetworkObject ...
  • Users are intermittently receiving an error that states, "No pixel dimensions were received. To resolve the issue, refresh the browser, or try again later."
  • Feb 29, 2016 ... PXE E51 No DHCP or proxy DHCP offers were received for WDS set up ... I'm hoping someone could help me with WDS, I currently have a 5 PC set up ...
  • Aug 2, 2024 ... Three Solana were received by my phantom wallet today... Wallet/Exchange. I just went to DCA a bit of SOL and saw that three Solana I didn't ...
  • Dec 8, 2015 ... And the system log mentions No RTP packets were received. So i believe that something is blocking RTP packets but everything is on a lan no ...
  • Apr 1, 2022 ... W WARNING: no two valid DNS TXT records were received #3876. Closed ... were received 2022-04-02 02:24:17.920 I [109.194.35.141:18080 ...
  • Nov 8, 2016 ... Hello, When I try to take an image of a machine, I keep getting this message. PXE-E51: No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were received.
  • Aug 18, 2023 ... “In the last 7 days, no optimization events were received at this URL for the selected pixel. Make sure the pixel is installed for this URL and ...

Alternatives:

  • Did they receive?
  • Were they taken in?
  • Were they accepted?
  • Were they collected?
  • Were they acquired?

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