Tediuki
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The sentence; 'A lot of coffee is produced in Brazil' is a general truth and a fact. It screams out to me to be present simple as a statement or phrase. However, when one takes the two words 'is produced' on their own the word 'produced' becomes a past participle and the word 'is' remains the third-person singular simple present of 'to be'. When defining the tense of 'is produced' separately from the sentence the nearest thing I can find in Rosemary Aitken's 'Teaching Tenses' book is that it falls under the heading of becoming a present passive. Is my deduction correct? My sanity could depend on this. I've been investigating this on and off for the past 24 hours.