PASSIVE VOICE

Bentuk kalimat aktif dan pasif mungkin sudah tidak asing dalam telinga kita.

Tidak hanya dalam Bahasa Indonesia, dalam Bahasa Inggris pun juga dikenal kedua jenis kalimat ini.

Definisi Passive Voice

Dilansir dari The Writing Center, passive voice merupakan “a passive construction occurs when you make the object of an action into the subject of a sentence.

That is, whoever or whatever is performing the action is not the grammatical subject of the sentence.”

Dari definisi di atas dapat disimpulkan bahwa passive voice subjek kalimat tidak melakukan aksi melainkan menerima aksi.

Misalnya dalam Bahasa Indonesia, kata kerja menjadi berawal di-, seperti: disapu, disetir, dimakan, dan sebagainya.

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Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.

Example: My bike was stolen.

In the example above, the focus is on the fact that my bike was stolen. I do not know, however, who did it.

Sometimes a statement in passive is more polite than active voice, as the following example shows:

Example: A mistake was made.

In this case, I focus on the fact that a mistake was made, but I do not blame anyone (e.g. You have made a mistake.).

Subject + form of to be + Past Participle

Example: A letter was written.

When rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following:

1. the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence

2. the form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle)

3. the subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence

Simple Present

Active : Anisa writes a letter

Passive : A letter is written by Anisa

Active : Budi sings two beautiful songs

Passive : Two beautiful songs are sung by Budi

Active : Anisa wrote a letter yesterday

Passive : A letter was written by Anisa yesterday

Active : Budi sang two beautiful songs

Passive : Two beautiful songs were sung by Budi

Active : Anisa is writing a letter

Passive : A letter is being written by Anisa

Active : Budi is singing two beautiful songs

Passive : Two beautiful songs are being sung by Budi

Active : Anisa was writing a letter

Passive : A letter was being written by Anisa

Active : Budi was singing two beautiful songs

Passive : Two beautiful songs were being sung by Budi

Active : Anisa will write a letter

Passive : A letter will be written by Anisa

Active : Budi will sing two beautiful songs

Passive : Two beautiful songs will be sung by Budi