Tugas Softskill Active & Passive Voice Bulan 3

#exercise  35 : Passive Voice

1.     Somebody calls the president everyday

#The President is called by somebody

2.    John is calling the other members

#The members are being called by john

3.    Somebody will call Mr. Watson tonight

#Mr. Watson will be called by somebody tonight

4.    The fire has caused considerable damage

#The considerable damage has been caused by the fire

5.    The teacher should buy the supplies for this class

#The supplies should be bought for this class by the teacher.

#Exercise  36 : Causative verbs

  

1.     The teacher made juan leave the room.

2.    Toshiko had her car repaired by a mechanic.

3.    Ellen got marvin to typed her paper.

4.    I made Jane call her friend on the telephone.

5.    We got our house painted last week.

6.    Dr. Bryd is having the students write a composition.

7.    The policemen made the suspect lie on the ground.

8.    Mark got his transcript send to the university.

9.    Maria is getting her hair cut tomorrow.

10. We will have to get the dean signed this form.

11.  The teacher let al leave the classroom.

12. Maria got Ed washed the pippet.

13. She always has her car to fix by the same mechanic.

14. Gene got his book published by a subsidy publisher.

15. We have to help janet to find her key.

Article About Active and Passive Voice

#Active Voice

Active voice is a grammatical voice common in many of the world's languages. It is the unmarked voice for clauses featuring a transitive verb in nominative–accusative languages, including English and most other Indo-European languages.

Active voice is used in a clause whose subject expresses the agent of the main verb. That is, the subject does the action designated by the verb. A sentence whose agent is marked as grammatical subject is called an active sentence. In contrast, a sentence in which the subject has the role of patient or theme is named a passive sentence, and its verb is expressed in passive voice. Many languages have both an active and a passive voice; this allows for greater flexibility in sentence construction, as either the semantic agent or patient may take the syntactic role of subject.

#Passive Voice

Passive voice is a grammatical voice common in many of the world's languages. In a clause with passive voice, the grammatical subject expresses the theme or patient of the main verb – that is, the person or thing that undergoes the action or has its state changed. This contrasts with active voice, in which the subject has the agent role. For example, in the passive sentence "The tree was pulled down", the subject (the tree) denotes the patient rather than the agent of the action. In contrast, the sentences "Someone pulled down the tree" and "The tree is down" are active sentences.

Typically, in passive clauses, what would otherwise be expressed by the object (or sometimes another argument) of the verb comes to be expressed by the subject, while what would otherwise be expressed by the subject is either not expressed at all, or is indicated by some adjunct of the clause. Thus transforming an active verb into a passive verb is a valence-decreasing process ("detransitivizing process"), because it transforms transitive verbs into intransitive verbs. This is not always the case; for example in Japanese a passive-voice construction does not necessarily decrease valence.

Many languages have both an active and a passive voice; this allows for greater flexibility in sentence construction, as either the semantic agent or patient may take the syntactic role of subject. The use of passive voice allows speakers to organize stretches of discourse by placing figures other than the agent in subject position. This may be done to foreground the patient, recipient, or other thematic role, it may also be useful when the semantic patient is the topic of on-going discussion. The passive voice may also be used to avoid specifying the agent of an action.

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