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Default Re: Verb or be plus adjective

He was married in June.

Passive Sense: Someone married him in June.
Adjectival Sense: He became married in June. <state of being>

Ask Raman to give you the documents which are all reviewed.
Adjectival sense: the reviewed documents. <kind of documents>
Passive sense: *which someone reviewed. ungrammatical

Note, "which are all reviewed" defines the noun documents;it's definite, whereas the passive;e.g., "someone reviewed the documents" carries an indefinite pronoun, "someone".
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