The Difficulties of Learning Passive Voice (original) (raw)

Understanding about passive voice could be a challenge for many English learners. This is due to the lack of understanding about the formulas of passive voice as well as because it is not commonly used in daily life. Passive voice is the form of a sentence in which subject is affected by the action of the verb (Joshi, 2014: 4). The challenge we faced as English learners depends on not only the basic understanding of the formulas to make passive voice but also how to use it daily. We cannot deny the fact that passive voice is not really common to use rather than active voice. This article describes about the difficulties of learning passive voice. The aim of this article is to make these problems occur to the top in order to make the readers understand about them and try to find the way to make passive voice appealing to be more fun. This article could be the starting point to identify the challenges that the learners Dini Puji Agustini 55 have when they study about passive voice with the hope that teachers or people who read this article could make further steps in improving how to teach passive voice.