Newspaper headlines are full of non-agentive passive sentences where doers are omitted, because they are understood or not important to the readers.
- Subsidi upah pekerja segera disalurkan.
- Workers’ wage subsidy to be distributed soon.
Dua polisi ditindak.
Two policemen were disciplined.
Supaya mudah dibaca, tulislah besar-besar.
To make it easy for people to read, please write in big letters.
Note:
The characteristic of the Passive Sentence is the use of prefix di-, ter- and ke- and the suffix -an or -kan in verbs.
Transitive sentences can be transformed into passive sentences by:
- making the object of the active sentence become the subject of the passive sentence
- replacing the prefix me- with di-, ter- and ke- (see prefix chapter)
- making the subject of the active sentence become the agent.