Active and Passive Sentences

Tugas 3 & 4 Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 2

  

1. Active Sentences      
   
         
   Active sentence is a sentence that the subject is doing the job or In active sentences, the thing doing the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing receiving the action is the object. Most sentences are active.
   
   
   The formula: 
   
   
   • Subject + Main Verb + Someone + Verb Word
    
   Examples from Active Sentences:
   1. His mother made him take his medicine
   2. Let's get Ralp to go whit us
   3. He was helping me type my paper
   4. My English teacher had us give oral reports
   5. His mother let him go to school
   6. Right now, Sarah is writing the letter
   7. George had repaired many cars before he received his mechanic's license.
   8. Sam repaired the car 
   9. Jerry used to pay the bills
       
2. Passive Sentences      

Passive sentences is that the subject is the sentence shall be imposed with a job or a subject, or in passive sentences, the thing receiving the action is the subject of the sentence and the thing doing the action is optionally included near the end of the sentence. You can use the passive form if you think that the thing receiving the action is more important or should be emphasized. You can also use the passive form if you do not know who is doing the action or if you do not want to mention who is doing the action.

      The formula: 

•   [Thing receiving action] + [be] + [past participle of verb] + [by] + [thing doing action]

 
Examples from Passive Sentences:

1. His mother made his madicine taken by him
2. Let's get out car fixed
3. He helped my paper typed
4. My English teacher had oral reports given
5. His mother am letting this machine checked
6. Right now, the letter is being written by Sarah.
7. Many cars had been repaired by George before he received his mechanic's license.
8. The car was repaired by Sam.
9. The bills used to be paid by Jerry.

Article:

The sea was formed about 4.4 billion years ago . Where it is very acid with water boils ( with the temperature of about 100c ) because of the heat of the planet at that time . Asamnya sea water was because at that time the earth 's atmosphere filled with carbon dioxide . Water keasaman this is what causes the high of weathering happened that generate salt that causes salt dead sea water into like now .

Watery vapor condensed in the atmosphere started to rain and formed . This is the rain that fills depressions in the earth until formed the ocean that 's why on earth began to have water . Slowly , the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere started to rise because of the solute in sea water and reacting with an ion carbonate forming calcium carbonate . As a result , the heavens are garnished so that started the rays of the sun can be back in illuminative the earth and resulted in the process of evaporation happened so that the volume of sea water on the earth also suffered substraction and parts of the earth that originally submerged aquatic begin to dry . The process of weathering assistance of continue due to rain and is carried away into our oceans , causing the sea of salt .

In 3.8 billion years ago , the earth began to appear blue because of the sea that has been formed . The temperature of the earth the cold because the water of the sea a role in absorbing heat energy . That 's the history of the formation of the sea , so shall we keep of natural from the sea to our grandchildren depressions.

  note:

• words that are underlined and bolded containing passive sentences

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