Passive Voice

- Passive voice is a form of sentence where the subject of the sentence takes action, not takes action. Unlike active voice which focuses on the party doing the action (doer of action), this form focuses more on the party or object that receives the result of an action (receiver of action).

- Passive Voice Formulas

To form a passive sentence, the following simple formula is usually used but still has to be adjusted to the tense of the sentence.

Subject + to be (am/is/are) + past participle (pp)

The use of passive sentences with perfect continuous tenses is usually rarely done because it results in a sentence structure that is too complicated and difficult to understand. Therefore, this should be avoided even if it is grammatically correct.

The thing that must be understood in learning Passive Voice is a verb (Verb) because all active sentences that can be converted into a Passive Voice are sentences that use a verb (Verb) and the verb is a verb of the 3rd form (Verb-3)

- There are 3 types of verbs, namely:

Verb 1 >>> Present

Verb 2 >>> Past

Verb 3 >>> Past Participle

- Besides having 3 types, verbs (Verb) have 2 forms, namely:

Regular Verb (irregular): play-played-played

Irregular Verb (irregular): sing-sang-sung

- The function of the passive voice

Passive voice is used to show interest in a person or object that is subjected to an action and not a person or object performing the action. So, the most important thing or person will be the subject of the sentence.

- Example

The passive voice is used frequently. (= we are interested in the passive voice, not in who uses it.)

The house was built in 1654. (= we are interested in the house, not in who built it.)

The road is being repaired. (= we are interested in the path, not in who did the repair.)

Sometimes, we use passive voice because we don't know or don't want to say who did the action.