The research entitled An Analysis on Active and Passive Voices in Rubric
“Opini” on the Kompas Daily Newspaper Edition February 2017 aimed to
describe types of sentences, structure of sentences, and process of changing active
voice into passive voice in Daily Newspaper Kompas Edition February 2017.
This resaerch belong to descriptive qualitative research. The data of this
resaerch were active and passive voices in “Opini” rubric on Kompas i.e. 223 active
voices and 53 passive voices. This research was conducted in three phases i.e.
providing data, data analysis, and presentation of analysis result. This research used
distributional method to analyze the data obtained through Segmenting immadiate
constituents technique.The data were selected based on certain category i.e. active and
passive voice in “Opini” Rubric on Kompas Daily Newspaper Edition February 2017.
In providing data, the researcher used observation method with reading and writing
technique. In presenting the data, the researcher used informal and formal method.
The result of this resaerch consisted of categorization of active and passive
sentences based on the type, structure, and the way of changing active into passive
voice. First, based on its type, active sentences consisted of transitive and intransitive
sentences. Passive voice consisted of passive voice type I, type II, and type III.
Second, the structures of the sentences found in active and passive sentences were
sequential (not inversion) i.e. S-P-O-K, S-P-O-Pel, S-P-O, S-P-Pel, S-P-K, S-K, S-P,
S-P-O-Pel-K, K-S-P-O-Pel, K-S-P, K-S-P-O, and K-S-P-Pel; and inversed. Third,
there were two ways of changing active into passive voice. The first way was by
changing S with O; changing prefix me- (n) with prefix di- in P; and adding the word
oleh (by) in front of O. The second way was by moving O to the beginning of the
sentence; taking off prefix me- (n) in P; and moving S to the proper position before
verb.