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Juni 2020 Passive Voice

PASSIVE VOICE

Pasive Voice is the relationship of the subject to the action as :

 active: the subject is doing the action
 passive: the subject is receiving the action

For the example :
Active Voice Passive Voice

The Teacher teaches English subject English subject are taught by the teacher

[subject] + [verb] + [ object] [Object as subject]+[to be past

participle of a transitive

verb]+[optional prepositional phrase]

Tabel 1: Example Active and Passive Voice
From the example above, we can used passive voice for :

1. Who or what performs the action while using the passive voice, we use the
preposition by
E.g : Insulin was first discovered in 1921 by researchers at the University of Toronto

2. The actor is unknown / we don't know or do not want to express who performed the
action.
E.g : The cave paintings of Lascaux were made in the Upper Old Stone Age.
[We don’t know who made them.]

3. The actor is irrelevant:
E.g :An experimental solar power plant will be built in the Australian desert.
[We are not interested in who is building it.]

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