ENGLISH 1119 - PASSIVE VERB

The passive forms of a verb are created by combining a form of the "to be verb" with the past participle of the main verb. Other helping verbs are also sometimes present:

"The old man might have been killed by him." The passive can be used, also, in various tenses. Let's take a look at the passive forms of "design."

Tense	Subject	Auxiliary		Past Participle
		Singular	Plural
Present	The letter/letters	is	are	written
Present perfect	The letter/letters	has been	have been	written
Past	The letter/letters	was	were	written
Past perfect	The letter/letters	had been	had been	written
Future	The letter/letters	will be	will be	written
Future perfect	The letter/letters	will have been	will have been	written
Present progressive	The letter/letters	is being	are being	written
Past progressive	The letter/letters	was being	were being	written

In MALAY LANGUAGE; You learn about ' Kata kerja Pasif'

Example; Surat itu ditulis oleh kakak

When an active sentence with an indirect object is organized in the passive, the indirect object can take on the role of subject in the passive sentence:

Active	Teacher Aini delivered a lecture in the class
Passive	A lecture was delivered in the class by Teacher Aini
Passive	A lecture was delivered in the class

In MALAY LANGUAGE; You learn about ' Kata kerja Aktif'

Example; Cikgu Aini menyampaikan kuliah dalam kelas itu [KATA KERJA AKTIF]

               Kuliah disampaikan dalam kelas itu oleh Cikgu Aini [KATA KERJA PASIF]

JIKA FAHAM PERBEZAAN ANTARA KATA KERJA AKTIF DAN KATA KERJA PASIF

IN MALAY LANGUAGE, THEN, EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND WRITE  PASSIVE VERB IN YOUR WRITING

An infinitive phrase in the passive voice, for instance, can perform various functions within a sentence (just like the active forms of the infinitive).

•  To be chosen by him is my dream
•  That cat really likes to be fed by him

The same is true of passive gerunds

• Subject: Being chosen by him was an awesome dream
• Object: I really don't like being lectured to by my boss.
• Object of preposition: I am so tired of being lectured to by my boss(http://grammar.ccc. commnet.edu/grammar/passive.html )