Jumat, 12 November 2010

PASSIVE VOICE

Passive Voice

Halo teman-teman kali ini kita akan belajar menegenai ' passive voice ' apa itu passive voice? Passive voice adalah mengubah kalimat aktif menjadi kalimat pasif, yuk mari dilihat…..

Passive voice is a Passive construction occurs when you make the object of an action into the subject of a sentence. That is,whoever or whtever is performing the action is not grammatical subject of the sentence. Take a look at this passive rephrasing of a familiar joke

  • When rewritting active sentences in pasive voice note the following:
  • The object of the active sentences becomes the subject of the passive sentence
  • The finite form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle)
  • The subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence( or is dropped )
       
    Simple present tenseWe take a noodleA noodle are taken by us
    Simple past We took a noodleA noodle was taken by us
    Simple futureWe will take a noodleA noodle will taken by us
    Present perfectWe has take a noodleA noodle has taken by us
    Past perfectWe had take a noodleA noodle had taken by us
    Going to futureWe are going to take a noodle on the tableA noodle are going to taken by us

     
In a passive clause, we usually use a phrase begining with by if we want to mention the agent – the person or thing that does the action, or that causes what happens.

Example:

S +verb1+s/es+ O+C(adv. Of time)

My brother makes fried rice every night

S+to be+verb3+agent+C(adv. Of time)

Fried rice is made by my brother every night

If you want change an active sentences which has two objects into passive forms, there are two ways :

Make its indirect object into the subject of the passive sentence

Make its direct object into the subject of the passive sentence

Example :

Torres is giving his girl friend
a flower

Passive:

The indirect object as the subject

Torres's girl friend is being given a flower

Passive:

The direct object as the subject

A flower is being given to Torres's girl friend

There are some rules that can help to make newspaper headlines more comprehensible.

  • The passive voice is used without the appropriate form of "be".
    Example: Town 'Contaminated'

    Complete Sentence: Town is contaminated.

    • It is unusual to find complex forms, generally the simple present form is used
      Example: Fire Destroys over 2,511 acres of Forest in 2003-2004

      Complete Sentence: Fire has destroyed over 2,511 acres of forest in 2003-2004.
    • The present progressive tense is used, usually to describe something that is changing or developing, but the auxiliary verb is usually left out.
      Example: World Heading for Energy Crisis

      Complete Sentence: The world is heading for an energy crisis.
    • To refer to the future, headlines often use the infinitive.
      Example: Queen to Visit Samoa.

      Complete Sentence: The Queen is going to visit Samoa.
    • Headlines are not always complete sentences.
      Example: More earthquakes in Japan.

      Complete Sentence: More earthquakes happened in Japan.

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