Active and Passive Sentence

Active and Passive Sentence

Kalimat aktif (active voice) adalah kalimat dimana subject-nya melakukan pekerjaan, sebaliknya, kalimat pasif (passive voice) adalah kalimat dimana subject-nya dikenai pekerjaan oleh object kalimat. Active voice lebih sering digunakan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari dibandingkan dengan passive voice. Namun demikian, sering kita temukan passive voice di surat-surat kabar, artikel-artikel di majalah-majalah dan tulisan-tulisan ilmiah. Passive voice digunakan karena object dari active voice merupakan informasi yang lebih penting dibandingkan dengan subject-nya..

Contoh active voice :

She buys a book.
They played football.
He brings some books.
We fertilize the soil every 6 months.
He meets them everyday.


Contoh passive voice :

A book is bought by her
Football was played by them
Some book are brought by him
The soil is fertilized by us every 6 months.
They are met by him everyday.