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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 its
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 tobe. 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
Passive Voice

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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
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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 tribes 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.
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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. Its very
clear why: because of forced settlement, tribes are no longer self-sufficient, and they can
easily get new diseases. A tribes 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 theyve organized. For a number of
years, Surviva asked the Indian government to respect the Jarawas 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 Jarawas land. They also had the settlers removed. Now Survival is
fighting for the Jarawas 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 Jarawas 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. Its 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