Tugas 2 : Bahasa Inggris Bisnis2 Active and Passive Voice

Active Voice

Active Voice sentences The subject is doing something or doing any work described by the predicate and object.  [Thing doing action] + [verb] + [thing receiving action]

Active Voice – indicates that the subject of the verb is acting. Because the subject does or "acts upon" the verb in such sentences, the sentences are said to be in the active voice.

Examples :

• She calls Billy 
• He is palying football in the yard
• I have made a cake this morning

• The dog jumped onto the boy.    

          The dog (subject) is doing the jumping (verb).

• Kristy will give a book report to the class.

          Kristy (subject) is doing the giving (verb).

• The computer ate my paper.

          The computer (subject) is doing the eating (verb).


Pasif Voice
Passive Voice is a sentence that the subject is a job or suffer something.  
[Thing receiving action] + [be] + [past participle of verb] + [by] + [thing doing action]

Examples :

• She is called by mother
• An elephant was killed by the hunter 

In the first sentence, she is a job that is called, whereas in the second sentence of an elephant suffering from something that is killed.

• In a passive voice sentence, the subject and object flip-flop. The subject becomes the passive recipient of the action. 
• Because the subject is being "acted upon" (or is passive), such sentences are said to be in the passive voice. 

• These examples show the subject being acted upon by the verb. 

• The boy was jumped on by the dog.

Boy (subject)  was being jumped on (verb)

• A book report will be given by Kristy to the class.

Report (subject) will be given (verb).

• My paper was eaten by the computer. 

Paper (subject) was being eaten (verb).

  

Difference between Passive Voice and Past Tense

Many people confuse the passive voice with the past tense. The most common passive constructions also happen to be past tense (e.g. “I’ve been framed”), but “voice” has to do with who, while “tense” has to do with when. 

 

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE TENSES CHART

Refferensi :

http://english-zone.com/verbs/pssvchrt.html

http://www.google.co.id/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=active+dan+passive+voice&source=web&cd=15&ved=0CEUQFjAEOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foothillhigh.org%2Fourpages%2Fauto%2F2008%2F8%2F27%2F1219814653834%2F02k-ActiveandPassiveVoiceOffice2003.ppt&ei=yl95T6_8I5DwrQeG1aGYDQ&usg=AFQjCNGKTT5TzchlsgrhKPm17c1_SThfiQ&cad=rja


http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/grammar-and-syntax/active-and-passive-verbs/

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