Jumat, 22 Februari 2019
Active and Passive Voice
Active and Passive Voice
The voice of a verb tells whether the subject of
the sentence performs or receives the action. In English There are two voices: active and passive.
In active voice, the subject
performs the action expressed by the verb
Example: The student wrote a
song.
Passive
Voice
In passive voice, the
subject receives the action expressed by the verb:
A song was written by the
student.
The passive voice always
consists of two parts: a form of the verb "to be" + past participle:
Transitive verbs have both active and passive forms.
Look at the table below
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Tense
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Active
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Passive
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Simple Present Tense
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The patterns of Simple Present
Tense
Active : S +
Verb-1 + s/es + ….Object/Complement
Passive : S + am/is/are + Verb-3
+ by …
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Jane always teach me
The hunter kills the lions.
The hunter kills the lion
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I am always taught by Jane
The lions are killed
by the hunter.
The lion is killed
by the hunter
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Present Future Tense
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The patterns of Present
Future Tense
Active : S +
will/shall + Verb-1 + ….
Passive : S + will/shall + be +
Verb-3 + by ….
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Someone
will clean the windows
Alexa
will clean my room
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The window will be cleaned
my room will be cleaned by Alexa |
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Simple Past Tense
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The patterns
of Simple Past Tense
Active
: S + Verb-2 + …. Object/Complement
Passive : S +
was/were + Verb-3 + by ….
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Leo
called them last week
They
invited him yesterday
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They were called by Leo last week
He was invited by them last week
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We can use the indirect
object as the subject of a passive verb:
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I gave him a
book for his birthday
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He was given a
book for his birthday.
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Someone sent her a cheque for a thousand euros
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She was sent a cheque for a thousand euros.
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We can use phrasal
verbs in the passive:
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They will
send him away to school.
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He will
be sent away to school
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