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	A passive sentence contains some form of the word "be." Diana Hacker states in her book, ''A Writer's Reference'', "forms of be (be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been) lack vigor because they convey no action" (128).		A passive sentence contains some form of the word "be." Diana Hacker states in her book, ''A Writer's Reference'', "forms of 'be' (be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been) lack vigor because they convey no action" (128).