Passive voice merupakan jenis tenses yang digunakan untuk menjelaskan suatu kejadian, di mana objek kalimat berperan sebagai penerima aksi. Biasanya, jenis tenses ini tidak menyebutkan subjek kalimat.
Untuk membuat passive voice, tentu harus memperhatikan jenis kalimat. Sebab, setiap tenses memiliki perumusan passive voice berbeda. Agar penggunaannya tak keliru, simak penjelasan mengenai rumus kalimat pasif dalam bahasa Inggris berikut ini dikutip dari laman Akupintar.
Simple present tense
[Active voice] S + do/does + V1Contoh kalimat: Students speak English
[Passive voice] S + to be (is/am/are) + V3 + by + O
Contoh kalimat: English is spoken by the students
Present continuous tense
[Active voice] S + to be (is/am/are) + V1-ing + OContoh kalimat: They are cleaning the boats
[Passive voice] S + to be (is/am/are) + being + V3 + by + O
Contoh kalimat: The boats are being cleaned by them
Present perfect tense
[Active voice] S + have/has + V3Contoh kalimat: She has cooked food
[Passive voice] S + have/has + been + V3 + by + O
Contoh kalimat: Food has been cooked by her
Present perfect continuous tense
[Active voice] S + have/has + been + V1-ing + OContoh kalimat: He has been reading the newspaper
[Passive voice] S + have/has + been + being + V3 + by + O
Contoh kalimat: The newspaper has been being read by him
Simple past tense
[Active voice] S + V2 + OContoh kalimat: She sang a song
[Passive voice] S + to be (was/were) + V3 + by + O
Contoh kalimat: A song was sung by her
Past continuous tense
[Active voice] S + to be (was/were) + V1-ing + OContoh kalimat: The boy was throwing the stone
[Passive voice] S + to be (was/were) + being + V3 + by + O
Contoh kalimat: The stone was being thrown by the boy
Past perfect tense
[Active voice] S + had + V3 + OContoh kalimat: Firefighters had put out the fire
[Passive voice] S + had + been + V3 + by + O
Contoh kalimat: The fire had been put out by the firefighters
Past perfect continuous tense
[Active voice] S + had + been + V1-ing + OContoh kalimat: I had been writing a poem
[Passive voice] S + had + been + being + V3 + by + O
Contoh kalimat: A poem had been being written by me
Simple future tense
[Active voice] S + will + V1 + OContoh kalimat: My friend will visit me tomorrow
[Passive voice] S + will be + V3 + by + O
Contoh kalimat: I will be visited by my friend tomorrow
Future continuous tense
[Active voice] S + will + be + V1-ing + OContoh kalimat: He will be uploading a new video on Youtube
[Passive voice] S + will + be + being + V3 + by + O
Contoh kalimat: A new video on Youtube will be being uploaded by him
Simple future past tense
[Active voice] S + would + V1 + OContoh kalimat: He would wrote the letter
[Passive voice] S + would + be + V3 + by + O
Contoh kalimat: The letter would be written by him
Future past continuous tense
[Active voice] S + would + be + V1-ing + OContoh kalimat: Students would be speaking English
[Passive voice] S + would + be + being + V3 + by + O
Contoh kalimat: English would be being spoken by students
Demikianlah rumus-rumus passive voice berdasarkan tenses kalimat. Semoga pembahasan di atas bermanfaat, ya! (Nurisma Rahmatika)
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