Why, have you broken the glass window? Why was the glass window been broken by you? When did you do this work? When was this work done by you? passive voice of these sentences?
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1 Ans = The glass was broken means here, could be an adjective form ( broken ) since the subject is missing.
The glass was broken, and the glass will not break on its own. So some doer must be there in the clause to act as a subject.
The glass was broken by someone/ something
2 Ans = Broken by" tells you either who was responsible for breaking the window, or what object caused the breakage. "Broken with" always tells you what was used, by the person responsible, to break the window. It suggests that the person broke the window deliberately.
"This window was broken by a cricket ball, which is still lying on the floor among the pieces of glass, so I suspect it was broken by John while he was playing in the garden."
"I couldn’t get into my house because I’d lost the key, so in the end I had to break a window with my fist."
"I don’t know yet by whom this window was broken," said the detective, "but it was broken with a hammer."