Passive Sentences

For those who want to learn further about passive voice, please read the explanation below and do all the excercises. Since our Bahasa consists of 75 % passive sentences, I think it’s tres important for us to know deeper this material. Hope you all the best before the final battle comes. God Bless You!

 

Kalimat pasif  adalah kalimat yang objeknya menjadi pokok pembicaraan dan diletakkan di awal kalimat, dan kata kerjanya dimulai dengan di.

Contoh :

Aktif               :           Micha menendang      bola

Pasif                :           Bola     ditendang        oleh     Micha

Dalam Bahasa Inggris kata kerja dalam kalimat pasif  selalu dalam bentuk ke tiga (past participle) dan selalu didahului dengan to be. Kata kerja yang diperlukan dalam membuat kalimat pasif adalah kata kerja transitif, yaitu kata kerja yang memerlukan objek. Lawannya adalah kata kerja intransitif, yaitu kata kerja yang tidak memerlukan objek. Cara mengenali kata kerja transitif atau intransitif adalah dengan kata tanya “apa”.

Contoh                        :           Desi     Makan             (Desi makan apa?)

                                                Siska    Memukul         (Siska memukul apa?)

Berbeda dengan bahasa Indonesia, kalimat pasif dalam bahasa Inggris memerlukan to be yang disesuaikan dengan tensesnya:

Pasif Present :

Contoh                        :

Siti		cooks	rice
Rice	is	cooked		by	Siti

Latihan :

1.      Siti watches the film        

2.      The people speak English 

3.      He reads newspaper

4.      We play football

5.      They sings Jubaidah

6.      She takes my books

7.      They do the housework

8.      The boy helps the teacher

9.      John writes a letter

10.  Pak bon waters the flowers

Pasif past tense

Contoh :

Gonzales		Scored	3 goals
3 goals	Were	Scored		By	Gonzales

1.      Anita bought five cars  

2.      Bambang Pamungkas won the match

3.      Rudi stole five chickens

4.       The police arrested Jayus Game Bell

5.      The dog bit Paijo

6.      Alan ate 5 hamburgers

7.      Sum sum taught the children

8.      Maysin rode the black bike

9.      Maria told good stories

10.  He did homework

Pasif present continuous

Gonzales	Is		Kicking	The ball
The ball	is	Being	Kicked		By Gonzales

1.      Kimberly is riding a horse

2.      The students are watching Three Idiots

3.      She is reading newspaper

4.      They are breaking the window

5.      Jontor is taking a guitar lesson

6.      Mario and Alan are playing football

7.      She is typing a letter

8.      Jubaidah is writing an article

9.      Michael is singing a love song

10.  No one is eating the food

Untuk kalimat yang memakai modal; can, may, must, should etc

Someone	Can		Build	The bridge
The bridge	Can	Be	Built

Change into Active

1.      It was founded in 1969

2.      A road was built through the forest where they live

3.      This policy is called ‘force settlement’.

4.      A tribe’s sense of identity can easily be destroyed

5.      And so not much is known about them.

6.      ‘settlers’ were brought from other places to live in them.

Open book test! No Cheatin’.No talkin’. Do your best!

1.      Apakah Bahasa Inggris harus dimengerti?

2.      Mengapa pertanyaan-pertanyaan ini harus dikerjakan selangkah demi selangkah?

3.      Ruang-ruang kelas sedang dibersihkan ketika tiba-tiba hujan

4.      Masalah itu bisa dipecahkan segera

5.      Jika soal2 ini dipelajari dengan baik, Jontor tak perlu mencontek kemarin

6.      Sekolah ini didirikan tahun 1927 oleh para Jesuits

7.      Tak banyak yang diketahui tentang Jubaidah

8.      Jembatan ini dibangun untuk menghubungkan masa lalu dan masa depan anak-anak

9.      Nasi sedang dimasak ketika tamu datang

10.  Bahasa Inggris  memang harus dipelajari oleh para siswa secara serius

Sources:  (English in Mind p.46)

1.      Campaining for survival

·         present passive and past passive

·         present perfect passive and future passive

·         Reading (Tribes in danger)

Tribes in Danger

Survival is an international organization which helps endangered tribes. It was founded in 1969, and today it has supporters in 82 countries. Here is one of the success stories.

The Jarawa are a tribe o 200 – 300 people, and they live on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. They look very different from their Indian neighbours. Most probably, their closest relatives are African. No one outside the tribe really speaks their language, and so not much is known about them.

But we do not know how the Jarawa live. They are nomadic people, moving from place to place to find food. They hunt small animas and fish, they find berries, honey, and they are self sufficient – they do everything themselves.

The threats to the Jarawa started in 1970. A road was built through the forest where they live, and the Indian authorities decided to build towns and settlers were brought from other places to live in them. They also wanted the Jarawa in the towns.  This policy is called ‘forced settlement’, and it has been a disaster for tribal peoples in places all over the world. It’s very clear why: because of forced settlement, tribes are no longer self-sufficient, and they can easily get new diseases. A tribe’s sense of identity can easily be destroyed.

But itn the case of the Jarawa, it seems theat the fight against these dangers has been successful, thanks to Survival and the campaigns that they’ve organized. For a number of years, Surviva asked the Indian government to respect the Jarawa’s rights to live on their land. As a result of the campaign, there was a court case and eventually the authorities closed the road through the Jarawa’s land. They also had the settlers removed. Now Survival is fighting for the Jarawa’s right to won their land and to make their own choices about how they live.

A.    Evaluasi

a.       Why is very little known about the Jarawa?

b.      What possible results can forced settlement have on tribes?

c.       Why did the Indian government give up their plans to settle the Jarawa’s land?

d.      How has Survival been successful in helping the Jarawa?

e.       Find passive sentences in the text above!

Latihan soal:

1.      Survival …………..(support) by people in many parts of the world

2.      A few years ago, the  “Right Livelihood Award”, known as alternative Nobel Prize ……………………………………..(give) to Survival

3.      The president of Survival…………………..(inverview) on TV six months ago

4.      Survival ……………… not …………………..(fund) by any government

5.      Last year, a number of unknown trives …………………(discover) in various parts of the word

6.      It’s hard to believe how badly some tirives …………………..(treat) by government

7.      Some time ago, a film …………..(make) about the situation of tibal people worldwide

8.      A lot …………..(know) about how diseases ………………….(bring) to tribal people