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    The document discusses passive voice in English. It answers four questions: 1) What is passive voice? 2) What is the structure of passive voice? 3) When do we use passive voice? 4) How do we transform sentences from active to passive voice. The structure of passive voice is BE + past participle. Passive voice is used when the actor is unknown or unimportant, or to emphasize the recipient of the action. Sentences can be transformed from active to passive by changing the verb to the past participle and using a form of BE.

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    Passive Voice

    Bahasa Inggris 1
    Pertemuan 9

    Ayuni Fitria, S.Pd., M.A.

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    There are four questions we will try to answer today:
    1.What is Passive Voice?
    2.What is the structure?
    3.When do we use the Passive Voice?
    4.How do we transform Active  Passive Voice?

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    What is the Passive Voice?

    Active: Everyone loves the game.

    Passive: The game is loved by everyone.

    Active: The thief stole my laptop.

    Passive: My laptop was stolen by the thief.

    Active: The mechanic is repairing my car.

    Passive: My car is being repaired by the mechanic.


    What is the structure?

    Passive Voice

    BE + PAST PARTICIPLE

    is / am / are / was / were VERB 3 (steal – stole – stolen)


    will be / can be / should be
    has been / have been / had been
    is being / am being / are being
    was being / were being

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    Passive: The game is loved by everyone.
    is: be
    loved: past participle (verb 3)

    Passive: My laptop was stolen by the thief.


    was: be
    stolen: past participle (verb 3)

    Passive: My car is being repaired by the mechanic.


    is being: be
    repaired: past participle (verb 3)
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    When do we use the Passive Voice?

    1. When the person who performs the action is not known or not important.
    2. When the focus of attention is on the subject of the passive sentence.

    Passive:
    “The Facebook” was launched in February 2004.
    The speaker probably doesn’t know who launched “The Facebook”.
    The focus is on the subject (“The Facebook”)
    The speaker might be interested on the date (February 2004)

    Active:
    Marc Zuckerberg launched “The Facebook” in February 2004.
    The person who launched “The Facebook” is known and important

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    When do we use the Passive Voice?

    3. If we want to say who performs the action, we can use ‘by + person’

    Passive:
    “The Facebook” was launched by Marc Zuckerberg.
    The focus is on the subject (“The Facebook”)
    ‘By + Marc Zuckerberg’ is included because it contains important information.

    The mobile app is being developed by my team.


    The focus is on the subject (the mobile app)
    ‘By + my team’ is included because it contains important information.

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    How do we transform Active  Passive Voice?

    Active: Marc Zuckerberg launched “The Facebook”.


    Passive: ……………………………………………………………….

    We need BE + PARTICIPLE was launched

    RESULT:
    Active: Marc Zuckerberg launched “The Facebook”.

    Passive: “The Facebook” was launched by Marc Zuckerberg.

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    Tense Form of Passive

    Note:
    Present perfect continuous, past perfect continuous, future continuous, & future perfect continuous are rarely used in
    passive.

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    Important information

    Some sentences CANNOT be transformed PASSIVE VOICE.


    These sentences DON’T HAVE OBJECT.

    Example:
    Active: Everyone loves the game.
    Passive: The game is loved by everyone.

    Active: Everyone arrived early.


    Passive: X

    Verbs like arrive, agree, come, cry, fall, go, happen, live, rain, sleep, etc. are called INTRANSITIVE VERBS.

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    It’s the end of the lesson.
    See you on the next meeting

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