Active Sentence and Passive Sentences

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Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 2

Active sentence and passive sentences

Active sentence (active voice) is a sentence in which the subject is doing the work, by contrast, passive sentences (passive voice) is the subject of his sentences which are subject to a work by the object of the sentence.

The formula of active sentence :

1.      Active Sentence

Subject + Verb + Object

2.      Passive Sentence

S+ auxilary verb + verb 3 + O

Examples of active - passive sentence :

Ø  [Active] We clean the house every week.

v  [Passive] The house is cleaned by us every week.

Ø  [Active] She kicks the ball very hard.

v [Passive] The ball is kicked by her very hard.

Ø  [Active] I called my mother yesterday.

v  [Passive] My mother was called by me last night.

Ø  [Active] She ate two hamburgers at a time.

v  [Passive] Two hamburgers were eaten by her at a time.

Ø  [Active] Sarah has made many cakes.

v  [Passive] Many cakes have been made by Sarah.

Ø  [Active] Raffi had told a nice story to me.

v  [Passive] A nice story had been told by Raffi to me.

Ø  [Active] You can borrow these books.

v  [Passive] The books can be borrowed by you.

Ø  [Active] We watched the Jurasic Park Movie on the cinema yesterday.

v  [Passive] The Jurasic Park Movie was watched by us yesterday.

Ø  [Active] He studied Mathematics yesterday.

v  [Passive] The mathematics is studied by him yesterday.

Ø  [Active] They had won the race after had hard work.

v  [Passive] The race had been won by us after had hard work.

Examples of passive - active  sentence :

v  [Passive] The letter had been written by me to my village before I had come.

Ø  [Active] I had written the letter to my village before I had come.

v  [Passive] The ball was being played by them together at noon yesterday.

Ø  [Active] They were playing the ball together at noon yesterday.

v  [Passive] I was being driven by my father to my school yesterday in the morning.

Ø  [Active] My father was driving me to my school yesterday in the morning.

v  [Passive] This plant is watered by me every day.

Ø  [Active] I always water this plant every day.

v  [Passive] Our grandmother is visited by us every 2 months.

Ø  [Active] We visit our grandmother every 2 months.

v  [Passive] The novel is being read by him.

Ø  [Active] He is reading a novel now.

v  [Passive] I have been told by my father not to go to the beach.

Ø  [Active] My father has told me not to go to the beach.

v  [Passive] The show had been being watched by me for 2 hours.

Ø  [Active] I had been being watching the show for 2 hours.

v  [Passive] Her computer was being fixed by me when she came.

Ø  [Active] I was fixing her computer when she came.

v  [Passive] John was being punched by Denny right in his face when the teacher came.

Ø  [Active] Denny was punching John right in his face when the teacher came.

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