You must announce to customers that your restaurant will no longer be open on Sundays. Which of the following uses passive-voice verbs to deliver the bad news?
A) We closed our restaurant on Sundays beginning last month.
B) Because few customers dine with us on Sundays, we decided to close our restaurant on this weekday.
C) Beginning last month, our restaurant was closed on Sundays.
D) Management decided that it must close our restaurant on Sundays.

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This sentence uses the passive voice verb "was closed" to focus on the action of the restaurant being closed on Sundays, rather than on who made the decision or took the action.

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