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Active-Passive Voices
Indonesian:
- melakukan
- dilaku...kan

Competence
Students are able to express their ideas
of scientific and/or technological
processes in active and passive voices

Active Voice
Active voice is a sentence where
the Subject does the activity.
Examples:
-Budi fixes that motorcycle
-Anna visited some companies
-The manager is training the employee candidates
-He sells some kinds of motorbike spare parts

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Passive Voice
Passive voice is a sentence where
the Subject gets the effect of the
action.
Examples:
- That motorcycle is fixed by Budi
-Some companies were visited by Anna
-The employee candidates are being trained by the
manager
-Some kinds of motorbike spare parts are sold

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The Formulas of Active and Passive

Voices
Active Voices
- Subject + Verb + Object
Danny repairs motor bikes
- Subject + Verb + Adverb
Shanty goes to the
showroom
- Subject + Verb + Adjective
Those engines are new

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Passive Voice
- Subject + to be + Verb 3
+ (by phrase/the agent/the
doer)
The passive of those actives
are:
- ..
- ..
- ..

There are some steps on changing Active to

Passive
Tenses on active = tenses on passive, and vice
versa,
The meaning of verb in active = the meaning of
verb in passive, and vice versa,
The object of active is the subject of passive
Subject of passive determines the to be of
passive
The subject of active (if it is clear) is the by
phrase/the agent/the doer of passive
So,Subject
from +active
to passive will be:
Verb + Object = Subject + to be + Verb 3
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Passive in various tenses

Subject + is/am/are + Verb 3
Subject + is/am/are + being + Verb 3
Subject + has/have + been + Verb 3
Subject + was/were + Verb 3
Subject + was/were + being + Verb 3
Subject + had + been + Verb 3
Subject + will/shall + be + Verb 3
Subject + is/am/are + going to + be + Verb 3
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Passive + Modals

Subjec
t

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Will
Shall
May
Must
Can
Would
Should
Might
Ought to
Could

+ be (+ by phrase/the
agent/the doer)

Exercise
Please change these sentences into active or
passive
The technicians plug-in some solar cells along the street
The industrial wastes are being treated at the right
places by the experts
Can those tools be carried by a bigger truck?
Some chemists have done the research of the project
They do not understand the subject well
Some environmental activists saved some penguins from
polluted sea water
The government had sent some geologists for doing
research on earthquake in Japan
Are those new subjects being studied?
Those fruits are going to be extracted
The students will fly to Holland next week
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Thank You !!