True, In passive sentences, the focus is on what happens, not on who does the action., To form the passive, we use the verb be + past participle., Passive sentences can be used when the person who does the action is unknown or unimportant., In the passive, questions and negatives are formed in the same way as in active sentences., The passive can be used to describe processes, such as how something is made., The passive form of “They are doing the job” is “The job is being done.”, The sentence “California is said to be warm and sunny” is an example of using the passive to talk about reputation or general belief., False, The passive form of “We do the job” is “The job does.”, The sentence “The email was sent this morning” is in the present simple passive., In passive sentences, we always need to mention who did the action using by.

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