Passive voice

Fathan Nabiel

M. Al Fatih

Fairuz Zakky

Fatwa W Yudha
Explaining what passive voice
is, the function and how to use
it along with examples.
 What is passive voice?
Passive voice in indonesian is known as passive sentence. Active
sentence and passive sentences have some very basic differences. If in
the active sentence the subject of the sentence (person) does the
work, while in the passive sentence the subject is not the doer of the
job but the object.

Active : S + Verb/Modal + O

Passive: S + Verb/Modal + O
Passive voice in indonesian can be easily formed by simply
adding the prefix di- in front of the verb. For example:
⚫ Active: Brother kicks the ball.
⚫ Passive: Brother kicked the ball.

But in English there is a slightly different way to change

active sentences into passive sentences. We have to change
some forms of the verb and add to be in front of it. For
example :
⚫Active : My brother kicks the ball.
⚫Passive : The ball is kicked by My brother.
When do we use passive voice?
A. Passive voice is used if we only want to focus on the
event not on who did it.

Active : The man is kicking the ball now

Passive: The ball is being kicked now.
/The ball is being kicked by the man now.
B. Passive voice is used to avoid a pseudo subject (someone,
somebody)

Active : Someone hit the mirror last night.

Passive: The mirror was hit last night.
/The mirror was hit by someone last night.
Note:
In English there are several verbs that can has 2 objects, such as:
Teach, pay, give, ask, tell, show, offer.

Active : Mr. Aldo teaches me Math.

Passive : I am tough Math by Mr. Aldo.
/Math is tough by Mr. Aldo to me.
Passive voice patterns.

In general, passive voice patterns can be divided

into 4, namely:
• present passive voice,
• past passive voice,
• Future passive voice, dan
• Modal auxiliary passive voice
Present passive voice.
⚫Simple present tense

Active : Budi writes a letter. (S + V1(s/es) +O)

Passive : A letter is written by Budi. (S + am/is/are + V3)

⚫ Present continuous

Active : Servant is cleaning the floor.

(S + To be + Ving + O )

Passive: The floor are being cleaned by the servant.

(S + is/am/are + being + V3 )
 ⚫ Present perfect tense

Active : Someone has written the letter.

(S + has/have + V3 + O)

Passive : The letter has been written by someone.

(S + has/have + been + V3)
⚫ Present perfect continuous

Active : We have been helping the poor people

(S + have/has + been + Ving + O )

Passive : The poor people have been being helped by us.

(s + have/has + been + being + V3)

 Past passive voice
⚫ Simple past
Active : I ate fried rice yesterday.
(S + V2 + O)

Passive : Fried rice was eaten by me yesterday.

(S + was/were + V3)
⚫ Past continuous

Active : The boys were painting the wall.

(S + To be + Ving + O)

Passive : The wall were being painted by the boys.

(S + was/were + being + V3)
⚫ Past perfect
Active : We had watched Titanic movie.
(S + had + V3 + O)
Passive : Titanic movie had been watched by us.
(S + had + been + V3)
⚫ Past perfect continuous

Active : The man had been cutting by the grass.

(S + had + been + Ving + O)

Passive : The grass had been being cut by the man.

(S + had + been + being + V3)
 Future Passive Voice
⚫ Simple future
Active : Maggie will wash the car.
(S + will + V1 + O)

Passive : the car will be washed by Maggie.

(S + will + be + V3)
⚫ Future continuous
Active: Andre will be collecting the paper.
(S + will + be + Ving + O)

Passive: The paper will be being collected by Andre.

(S + will + be + being + V3)
⚫ Future perfect
Active: John will have sold the car.
(S + will + have + V3 + O)

Passive : The car will have been sold by John.

(S + will + have + been + V3)
 ⚫ Future perfect continuous

Active : Michael will have been presenting final project.

(S + will + have + been + Ving + O )

Passive :
Final project will have been being presented by Michael.
(S + will + have + been + being + v3)
 Modal auxiliary Passive Voice

The auxiliary capital consists of Can-Could, May-Might,

Will-Would, Shall-Should, Must and Ought to.
Active : The woman can answer the question
(S + modals + V1+ O)

Passive : The question can be answered by the woman.

(S + Modal + be + V3)
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