I'm rather confused regarding the following sentence:
Labels are confirmed.
are confirmed represent a passive-voice or 'confirmed' is just an adjective, describing the labels?
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Not much of a sentence is it? "Confirmed" is a verb. – BillJ Apr 12 '19 at 06:37
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Update - this issue has been already discussed [here](https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/57967/i-am-surprised-passive-voice-or-adjective), it seems. – SunnySideDown Apr 12 '19 at 21:54
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It's passive voice if adding by X after confirmed would make sense.
A speaker/writer may not add the by X for a few reasons:
the speaker/writer has already said who/what X is and doesn't want to be overly repetitive
the speaker/writer doesn't know who X is at all.
Otherwise confirmed would just describe the state of the labels.
In your example there isn't enough context to know 100% for sure, but heuristically it's common to want to know whether or not something is confirmed, so it's most likely being used as an adjective.
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1I'll give more context. Customer to supplier: "My manager has confirmed the labels, after looking into the matter." _Referring to the passive-voice option as the answer_, I guess that this active-voice should turn to a passive voice differently: **The labels have been confirmed**, but for a short Email, maybe it is too long, so the customer used shorter construction of the passive-voice, "The labels are confirmed". – SunnySideDown Apr 12 '19 at 09:43
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In case "attached" and "confirmed" are indeed adjectives, what [type of adjective](https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/english-adjectives/) are they? – SunnySideDown Apr 12 '19 at 16:29