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THE PASSIVE

Passive voice is a grammatical voice common in many languages. In a clause with passive voice, the grammatical subject expresses the theme or patient of the main verb – that is, the person or thing that undergoes the action or has its state changed. This contrasts with active voice, in which the subject has the agent role. For example, in the passive sentence "The tree was pulled down", the subject (the tree) denotes the patient rather than the agent of the action. In contrast, the sentences "Someone pulled down the tree" and "The tree is down" are active sentences.

            To change the active voice to the passive voice, we must use the appropriate tense of ‘tobe’ and the ‘past participle’ (verb-3) of the verb in the active sentence. First find the subject, then the predicate (verb) and the object (complement) of the active sentence.

	S + be + V3 + by + O

 

Example:

Active: Alice helped the cat.

Passive: The cat was helped by Alice.

Change the active to the passive.

1.      Active : Alex opens the door

Passive : The door is opened by Alex

2.      Active : Lisa always helps Jony

Passive : Jony is always helped by Lisa

3.      Active  : Jack Scored the winning goal

Passive : The winning goal was scored by Jack

4.      Active  : Oly writes a letter

Passive : A letter is written by Oly

5.      Acitve  : Tina is preparing the report

Passive : The report is being prepared by Tina

6.      Active  : Waitresses and waiters serve customers

Passive : Customers are served by waitresses and waiters

7.      Active  : The English teacher is going to explain the grammar

Passive : The grammar is going to be explained by the English teacher

8.      Active  : Ella has suggested a new idea

Passive : A new idea has been suggested by Ella

9.      Active  : Smith is going to wash the car

Passive : The car is going to be washed by Smith

10.  Active : Katherine had returned the book to the library

Passive : The book had been returned to the library by Katherine

Change the passive to the active.

1.      Passive : A pop song is being sung by Lucy

Active  : Lucy is singing A pop song

2.      Passive : My house is being painted by Mr. Sam

Active  : Mr. Sam is painting My house

3.      Passive : Andro has been awarded a scholarship by Gunadarma University

Active  : Gunadarma University has awarded Andro a scholarship

4.      Paasive : Maria has been offered a good job by a local advertising company

Active  : A local advertising company has offered Maria a good job

5.      Passive : The news will be announced tomorrow

Active  : Tomorrow will announce the news

6.      Passive : Nesa will be invited to the party by Oska.

Active  : Oaka will invite Nesa to the party

7.      Passive : That note wasn’t written by me. It was written by Grace

Active  : I didn’t write that note. Grace wrote it.

8.      Passive : She won’t be fooled by this trick

Active  : This trick won’t fool her

9.      Passive : The novel has been translated by translators into many languages

Active  : Translators have translated the novel into many languages

10.  Passive : The chair had already been sold by the time you returned to the store

Active  : Someone had already sold the chair by the time you returned to the store

Reference :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_voice

Shobirin, R. Maas. 2009. Cepat&mudah menguasai tenses. Surabaya: LinguaKata