(Answers are for Standard American English, as used & understood by me.)

Q2 – Easy one. ”Quick thing’’ How is the word “Married” used both a verb and an adjective. As Maulik

V said, “They got married. What does that mean for a married couple? ”

Q1 – not quite so easy. ” The first phase of both sentences is correct and commonly used. If they

were married on April 1, 2014 they’d been happily together ever since, and had other

plans for the future.” “Had”

tends to imply something that happened in the past that is over and done with: “They

had married on April 1, 2014, but they got an annulment later that same day. However,

there is plenty of ambiguity either way.

After five years of marriage, a couple that was married on April 1, 2014, has become married again to the same

person. But they can’t get divorced after that. They have been happily apart from each other ever since. I

assume the OP is writing science fiction or making a prediction. How can a husband and wife have an 11-and-a-half months of marriage and each

have an 11-and-a-half-month, or are they in a situation similar to a five-year-old and are happy? u00bb Yes, getting married is a single distinct act that is undertaken and then

is finished (unlike, for example, buying chocolate ice cream), and then will always be in the past. Part

2 – Most people say a couple “were divorced” or “got divorced” but they still are divorced. The

two of them divorced in the next 26 years. ” “They were married, then they were divorced. ” When the kids came home from marital sex to divorce, the couple became divorced. So that they were not married or married at all. I

hope that this

helps.