Active and Passive Voice

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Active Voice

Active voice is sentences where the subject do the activity. Active voice used most of the time and used in a clause whose subject expresses the agent of the main verb. The Active voice is direct (performer-verb-receiver), vigourous, clear and concise. The reader knows who is responsible for the action. Example of sentences, "Andi do the homework". That means subject "Andi" doing the action to finish his "homework" as object.

 

The pattern of Active Voice in tenses

- Simple Present Tense

   I ride the motorcylce to the college

- Simple Past Tense

   She saw us in the market yesterday

- Present Perfect Tense

   We have studied the TOEFL book for 3 hours

- Past Perfect Tense

   The teacher had teached us for 5 years when we studied in Junior High School

- Simple Future Tense

  I will garduate from the college this year

- Future Perfect Tense

  They will have breakfast before I wake up tomorrow

- Past Future Perfect Tense

  I would have visited my parents

- Present Continuous Tense

  He is reading a book now

- Past Continuous Tense

  She was finishing her education

- Perfect Continuous Tense

  We have been understanding the theory of active and passive voice

- Past Perfect Continuous Tense

  They had been repairing the car

- Future Continuous Tense

  We will be driving a car

- Past Future Continuous Tense

  I would be breaking the target

- Future Perfect Continuous Tense

  They will have been shouting the goverment

- Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense

  He would be shooting the mouse

Passive Voice

Passive voice is sentences where the subject get the action from the object. Passive voice used cause the object of active voice is more important for the information then the subject and used a form of the verb to be followed by a past participle and a by phrase. It is a sentences that the subject is not actor of an act, but it is the recipient of an action. If the by phrase is omitted, the reader will not directly know who or what performed in action. In passive voice, the target of the action gets promoted to the subject position. Example of the sentence, "The homework is done by Andi". That means the subject is not actor of an act, but the recipient of an action.

The pattern of Passive Voice in tenses

- Simple Present Tense

   The Motorcycle is riden by me 

- Simple Past Tense

   We were seen her in the market yesterday

- Present Perfect Tense

   The TOEFL has been studied by us for 3 hours

- Past Perfect Tense

  We had been teached by the teacher for 5 years when we studied in Junior High School

- Simple Future Tense

  The college will be graduated by us this year

- Future Perfect Tense

  Breakfast will have been by them before I wake up tomorrow

- Past Future Perfect Tense

  My parents would have been visited by me

- Present Continuous Tense

  A book is being read by him now

- Past Continuous Tense

  Education was being finished by her

- Perfect Continuous Tense

  The theory of active and passive voice has been being understood by us

- Past Perfect Continuous Tense

  The car had been being repaired by them

- Future Continuous Tense

  A car will be being driven by us

- Past Future Continuous Tense

  The target would be being broken by me

- Future Perfect Continuous Tense

  The goverment will have been being shouted by them

- Past Future Perfect Continuous Tense

  The mouse would be being shot by him

Example of article which contains passive sentences (underline sentences)

Genome Announcement a Milestone 

"Mapping the human genome has been compared with putting a man on the moon, but I believe it is more than that," said Dr. Michael Dexter, the director of the Wellcome Trust, which funded the British part of the Human Genome Project.  

The medical benefits of genome science, scientists agree, must be used to benefit all people, not only a privileged few. Individual privacy must be protected as science moves forward with the project, and the information must not be used to discriminate against any group or person.

"This is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind," Clinton said in Washington. "Humankind is on the verge of gaining immense new power to heal. Genome science will revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases."

            All the researchers involved praised the high level of international cooperation that enabled them to reach this stage, and they pledged to keep that momentum going.

Reference :

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/539/01/

http://www.biomedicaleditor.com/active-voice.html

http://delseikdepalin.blogspot.com/p/kalimat-aktif-dan-pasif-voice.html

http://swarabhaskara.com/miscellaneous/active-and-passive-voice/

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/passiveart.html