Passive Voice

Passive Voice

merupakan suatu grammatical construction (bentuk gramatikal) dimana subject kalimat tidak melakukan aksi, melainkan menerima aksi atau ditindaklanjuti (receiver of action) oleh agent lain (doer of action) baik disebutkan ataupun tidak.

 pada konstruksi active, subjectberhubungan langsung dengan verb dengan bertindak sebagai pelaku aksi. Kalimat aktif dapat ditransformasi menjadi pasif, namun hanya transitive verb(diikuti direct object) yang dapat diberlakukan seperti itu

Present Tense

Contohnya          Active (S+V1) : Someone writes a letter

                              Passive (to be +V3) : A letter is written by Lawrence

Note: jika subjectnya tidak penting maka tidak usah dituliskan

Past Tense

Contohnya          Active (S+V2): Ani wrote a Letter

                              Passive(was/were +V3): a letter was written by ani

Present Continuous

Contohnya          Active(S+am/is/are+V.ing): Danar is writing a letter

                              Passive(to be+V3): a letter is being written by danar

Past Continuous

Contohnya          Active(S+was/were+V.ing): cila was writing a letter, when her father came

                              Passive(to be +V3):a letter was being written by cila

Present Perfect

Contohnya          Active(S+has/have+V3):vilo has written a letter

                              Passive(to be +V3): a letter has been written by vilo

Past Perfect

(S+Had+v3)          gio had written a letter

Future

(S+will/modals)  koli will write