[Grammar] Confirmed or Confirm?

[Ifsad]

Now we are confirmed that the Sun exists.

I know for a fact that this sentence is wrong. It could be 'Now we have confirmed' or 'Now it is confirmed'. But my question is, why is it incorrect? Are there any rules? And if there is, what are those?

 

[Yankee]

"We" are not "confirmed". The confirmation or that which is "confirmed" is the fact that the sun exists. You could say, for example, "it has been confirmed that the sun exists, and we are convinced that it is true.

 

[jutfrank]

Why is it incorrect? Because it doesn't make sense.

The original incorrect sentence seems to be in the passive voice, which doesn't make sense, because it seems the sentence is saying that we are the object, not the subject, of the confirmation.

As Yankee explains, in the correct sentence, we are the people who have made the confirmation, and that the sun exists is the fact that has been confirmed.

 

[tedmc]

Or
Now we confirm the sun (no capital) exists.
It has been confirmed (by us) that the sun exists.

Only people can confirm.