Passive Voice

Understanding, Formulas and Examples of Passive Voice Sentences

About Passive Voice

Understanding Passive Voice

Passive voice is a grammatical construction (grammatical form) where the subject of a sentence does not take action, the inauguration receives action or is acted upon by the other agent (actor) either not or not.

Contests, on active construction, subject directly to the verb by acting as an actor. Active sentences can be transformed into passive, but only transitive verbs (following direct objects) can be applied.

Passive voice formulas are as follows below.

Passive voice

Note:

Auxiliary verbs can be primary auxiliary verb be (is, are, am, was, were, be, been, being), a combination of two primary (is / are being, was / has being, has / have been) or between primary and Auxiliary verb capital (will be, will have been); While the past participle used is a transitive verb.

  Example:

     She can not drive a car. (Active voice, transitive).

     He always come on time. (Active voice, intransitive)

Form changes from base form to past tense and past participle regularly or irregularly.

 Example:

     Play (base form) -> played (past participle)

     Sing (base form) -> sung (past participle)

Komponen         Contoh Kalimat Passive Voice

Subject                 be           PP

I am paid I am paid in dollars.

(Saya dibayar dalam dollar.)

the red velvet recipe is used       The red velvet recipe is used by many people.

(Resep red velvet tsb digunakan oleh banyak orang.)

all of my shoes are washed All of my shoes are washed every month.

(Semua sepatu saya dicuci setiap bulan.)

large amounts of meat and milk are consumed Large amounts of meat and milk are consumed by many people in the countries.

(Sejumlah besar daging dan susu dikonsumsi oleh banyak orang di negara-negara tsb.)

the book was edited      The book was edited by Beatrice Sparks.

(Buku tsb disunting oleh Beatrice Sparks.)

the books were edited The books were edited by Beatrice Sparks.

(Buku-buku tsb disunting oleh Beatrice Sparks.)

Not all transitive verbs, verbs that have direct objects, can be passed. Some of the verbs that include: have, become, lack, look like, mean, etc. will sound unnatural meaning when it is in a state. Some examples of sentences of the verb are as follows.