PASSIVE VOICE
Passive voice digunakan pada saat:
1. Orang/obyek yang melakukan sebuah kegiatan tidak penting untuk disebutkan.
Contoh:
The house was built in 1997. (rumah ini dibangun thn 1997-siapa yang membangun tidak penting)
2. Untuk memperhalus kalimat
Contoh:
The vase is broken. (vasnya pecah, entah siapa yang memecahkannya)
Bandingkan dengan: YOU broke the vas.
3. Pada saat tindakannya yang lebih dipentingkan daripada pelakunya.
Contoh:
30 people were killed in the tsunami. (pokoknya ada 30 orang yang terbunuh, bagaimana dan karena apa mereka terbunuh tak dipersoalkan)
4. Untuk memberikan penekanan pada pelaku.
Contoh:
The new library will be opened by the President.
This shirt is made by my mother.
Membentuk Passive Voice
| Active | (a) | Subject verb object Mary helped the boy | Object ‘the boy’ berubah posisi menjadi subject. |
| Passive | (b) | Subject verb The boy was helped by Mary. | By phrase. |
| Active | (c) | An accident happened. | Hanya kalimat transitive (yang memiliki object) yang bisa di passive-kan. |
| Passive | (d) | (none) |
Bentuk kalimat Passive adalah :
BE + PAST PARTICIPLE (Verb bentuk ke-3)
| Active | |||
| Simple present | Mary | helps | the boy |
| Present progressive | Mary | Is helping | the boy |
| Present perfect | Mary | Has helped | the boy |
| Simple past | Mary | helped | the boy |
| Past progressive | Mary | Was helping | the boy |
| Past perfect | Mary | Had helped | the boy |
| Simple future | Mary | Will help | the boy |
| Be going to | Mary | Is going to help | the boy |
| Future perfect | Mary | Will have helped | the boy |
| Passive | |||
| The boy | Is | helped | By Mary |
| The boy | Is being | helped | By Mary |
| The boy | Has been | helped | By Mary |
| The boy | Was | helped | By Mary |
| The boy | Was being | helped | By Mary |
| The boy | Had been | helped | By Mary |
| The boy | Will be | helped | By Mary |
| The boy | Is going to be | helped | By Mary |
| The boy | Will have been | helped | By Mary |
Latihan:
1. Tom opens the door. → The door ___________________ by Tom.
2. Tom is opening the door. → ________________________ by Tom.
3. Tom has opened the door. → _____________________________.
4. Shakespeare wrote that play. → ___________________________
5. The teacher is going to explain the lesson. → ___________________________________
6. Bill will invite Anna to the party. → ___________________________________________
7. Alex is preparing that reports. → _____________________________________________
8. Waiters serve customers. →_________________________________________________
9. Is Tom opening the door? → _____________ the door ______________ by Tom?
10. Has Tom opened the door? → ____________ the door ______________ by Tom?
