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Passive Voice

A sentence can be either in active

or
passive voice.
In active sentence, the subject
receives
the action, and in passive the
object
changes being a subject.
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Passive Voice
The Simple Present Tense
Pattern :
Subject + TOBE + Past Participle (V3)
am
Is
Are
Example:
Active : dr. Paul examines a hundred patient in a day.

Passive : a hundred patient are examined by dr. Paul in a

day.
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Passive Voice
The Simple Past Tense
Pattern :
Subject + TOBE + Past Participle (V3)
Was
Were

Example :
Active : The disaster produced the bad effects to the
victims last year.
Passive : The victims were produced the bad effects by
the disaster the year before.
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Passive Voice
The Present and The Past Continues Tense

Pattern :
Subject + TOBE + being + V3
Is
am
are

Was
Were
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Passive Voice
Examples :
Present Continues
Active : The researchers are analyzing the research.
Passive :The research is being analyzed by the
researcher.

Past Continues
Active : The government was increasing the all
taxes this
year.
Passive : The all taxes were increased by the
government this year.
Excercises !
Change the following sentences into passive one!
1. The children drink five glasses of water in a day.
2. They reach the dreams everyday.
3. One of the volunteers took the scholarship in
German.
4. She is making a good procedure of First Aids.
5. We though the ways of getting to Rome.
6. Lisa and Rochelle are bringing a bunch of flower
for her friends.
7. Randy was gathering a lot of stamps from
abroad several years ago.
8. Nurse Pamela sat on the sitting chair.
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Passive Voice
Present Perfect and Past Perfect
Pattern :

Present Perfect
Subject + Has / Have + been + V3

Past Perfect
Subject + Had + Been + V3
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Passive Voice
Examples :
Present Perfect
Active : The campus has announced the new rules to
the students.
Passive : The new rules have been announced to the
students by campus.

Past Perfect
Active : Thousand stones had arranged the Pyramid
before Christ.
Passive : The pyramid had been arranged by Thousand
stones before Christ.
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Passive Voice
MODALS
Pattern :

Subject + Modals + Be +
V3
Can
Could
Should
Would
Shall
Will
May
Must, etc.
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Passive Voice
Examples :
Active : You may leave this room
immediately.
Passive : This room can be left by you
immediately.

Active : The patients should wear the

uniform dress
when they in.
Passive : The uniform dress should be worn
by them
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Passive Voice
Modal + Perfect
Pattern :
Subject + Modal + have + been +
Past Participle (V3)

Examples :
Active : The lecturer could have presented
good
materials to the students.
Passive : The students could have been
presented
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Passive Voice
Exercise : Change the following sentences into
passive!
1.We have already known the doer of the case.

2.The internist has owned the hospital since 1986.

3.I had decided the decision for being a nurse when I turned

seventeen.

4.The casualty might tell the true fact of the accident to the police.

5.The interviewee had finished the interview since 2 hours ago.

6. Mr. smith could speak Japanese when he was 15.

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Passive Voice
1. Adik kecil ku dimandikan ibu pagi hari ini.
2. Mereka dibawakan beberapa makanan untuk
makan malam kemarin.
3. Caroline telah dibelikan mobil mewah oleh
orang tuanya sejak tahun 2000.
4. Komputer itu dapat digunakan oleh
mahasiswa dengan baik.
5. Mobilnya sedang diperbaiki oleh montir hari
ini.
6. Drama itu sedang dipertunjukan kepada
penonton ketika Tina datang tadi malam.
Look at the Cahrt then complete the
sentence by using verb "Speak"!
Number of
Language Speaker
(In Millions)
Arabic 246
Cantonese 71
1. Japanese .......................
(China)
2. One million people ......
English 508 3. ............by 57 million people.

Ho (Bihar & 1 4. Spanish ................

Orissa State, 5. .................... Cantonese .

.............246 million people.
India) 6.
7. More than 500 million people....................
Japanese 126 8. ....................in Uganda.
Spanish 417
Swahili (Kenya, 49
Tanzania,
Uganda, Congo )
Tagalog 57
(Philippines)
 Read the notes from the story bellow find
and correct the eight mistakes!
Two Third of Bolivias five million people locate in the
cool western highlands known as the Altiplano. For
centuries, the Grain Quino has been grew in the mountains.
Liamas raised for fur, meat, and transportation. And tin,
Bolivias richest natural resource is mining by miners in the
High Andes.
The Oriente, another name for the eastern lowlands, is
mostly Tropical. Rice is the major food crop, and cows are
raised for milk. Oil is also find there.
Although Spanish is the official language, Native American
Languages are still spoke by people. Traditional textiles are
Woven by hand, and music played on reed pipes whose tone
Resembles the sound of the wind blowing over high plains in
the Andes.