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Kalimat pasif atau passive voice digunakan untuk menunjukkan ketertarikan pada seseorang atau objek yang
dikenai tindakan dan bukan seseorang atau objek yang melakukan tindakan. Jadi, hal atau orang yang
terpenting akan menjadi subjek kalimat.
Contoh
The passive voice is used frequently. (= kita tertarik dengan kalimat pasif, bukan siapa yang
menggunakannya.)
The house was built in 1654. (= kita tertarik dengan rumahnya, bukan siapa yang membangunnya.)
Terkadang, kita menggunakan kalimat pasif karena kita tidak mengetahui atau tidak ingin menyatakan siapa
yang melakukan tindakan.
Contoh
Kalimat pasif sering digunakan dalam teks formal. Mengubahnya menjadi kalimat aktif akan membuat
tulisan Anda lebih jelas dan lebih mudah dibaca.
Pasif Aktif
Our planet is wrapped in a mass of gases. A mass of gases wrap around our planet.
Waste materials are disposed of in a variety of The city disposes of waste materials in a variety of
ways. ways.
Jika ingin mengatakan siapa atau apa yang melakukan suatu tindakan dalam kalimat pasif, kita
menggunakan preposisi by. Saat kita mengetahui siapa yang melakukan tindakan itu dan tertarik dengan
subjeknya, lebih baik kita mengubahnya ke kalimat aktif.
Pasif Aktif
"A Hard Day's Night" was written by the Beatles. The Beatles wrote "A Hard Day's Night".
The movie ET was directed by Spielberg. Spielberg directed the movie ET.
This house was built by my father. My father built this house.
+ to be
Subjek + past participle/V3 + sisa kalimat
(disesuaikan)
Simple present
The house is cleaned every day.
Present continuous
The house is being cleaned at the moment.
Simple past
The house was cleaned yesterday.
Past continuous
The house was being cleaned last week.
Present perfect
The house has been cleaned since you left.
Past perfect
The house had been cleaned before they arrived.
Future
The house will be cleaned next week.
Future continuous
The house will be being cleaned tomorrow.
Present conditional
The house would be cleaned if they had visitors.
Past conditional
would have
The house cleaned if it had been dirty.
been
Inifinitive
The house must be cleaned before we arrive.
Kalimat pasif infinitive digunakan setelah modal kata kerja (modal verb), dan kata kerja lainnya biasanya
diikuti oleh infinitive.
Contoh
Gerund digunakan setelah preposisi, dan kata kerja biasanya diikuti oleh gerund.
Contoh
Contoh
Terkadang, kalimat pasif dibentuk menggunakan kata kerja to get atau to have, dan bukan to be. Berikut
halaman terpisah yang membahas tentang cara-cara alternatif untuk membentuk kalimat pasif.
Text: Biodiesel
Biodiesel is a clean burning substitute for petroleum based diesel fuel. Biodiesel is made of vegetable
oil. To make or manufacture Biodiesel, you must first start with raw materials. The raw materials needed in
the production of Biodiesel are a small amount of methanol and a ready supply of vegetable product. One of
the most common vegetables used in the production of Biodiesel is corn, although depending on the
geographic location of the manufacturing facility many other plants are used as well (rapeseed, soybeans,
flaxseed, etc.). The first step is to use the raw vegetable product to make vegetable oil. Vegetable oil by
itself will not be what you need to power a car, from here it has to be processed into Biodiesel.
The process for converting vegetable oil into Biodiesel is sometimes called ester interchange. To
complete this process the vegetable oil has to be combined with a smaller amount of methanol and then put
in the presence of a small quantity of an alkaline catalyst (for example, 5% to 1% sodium hydroxide).
Vegetable oil is made up of so-called triglycerides, which is a compound of the trivalent alcohol glycerin
with three fatty acids. The goal of ester interchange is to separate the glycerin molecule from the three fatty
acids and replace it with three methanol molecules. This process then yields roughly 90% Biodiesel and
10% of a glycerin byproduct. The glycerin byproduct can be used in a number of other chemical processes
for different industries.
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