CHAPTER II PASSIVE VOIVE AND PASSIVE CONSTRUCTION
II.1. The way to change active into passive
According to Martinet & Thomson [1997:263] The passive of an active tense is formed by putting the verb to be into the same tense as the active verb and adding the past participle of the active verb. The subject of the active verb becomes the agent of the passive verb, when it is mentioned it is preceded by by and places at the end of the clause.
Passive voice = to be + past participle (P
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) Egg Active they destroyed the building.
Passive : The building was destroyed. We can see that the object “the building” of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive one. And the verb “destroyed” in the active sentence becomes “was destroyed” in the passive one. So why can the verb be changed like this In the passive sentence, the form is “be + past participle”. The verb
“be” must be “was” because the subject “the building” is singular and the tense is the past. Thus, the past participle of “destroy” is “destroyed”. It is the reason why that the verb has to be changed into “was destroyed”.
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