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Appendix 1
Passive Sentences Found in the Explanation
Composition
1.
Vegetable and fruits are some healthy food which are needed our body.2.
A healthy body are control by ourselves.3.
You do not have to try to memorize the words or phrases anymorebecause they will all installed in your mind as the time goes.
4.
When you exercise, your muscle, bones, and tissues will be refreshedby the blood and other liquids.
5.
You are not allowed to do your exercise either too often or too rare.6.
You are not allowed to consume carbohydrate for your breakfastbecause it will make you feel sleepy.
7.
It is used in daily conversation.8.
English should be the only language to be used.9.
Eating healthy food does not mean you always eat vegetables and youare not allowed to eat meat.
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11.
75% human body are made from water, because of that body needs alot of water everyday.
12.
When your body is dehydrated, your digestion and wrination processdisturbed and slowed down.
13.
The toxin can be thrown naturally through the wrination process.14.
But when we are sick, we are absent, and our salary will be decrease.15.
Some people said that if our life reach at least 70 years old, it can becalled that we reach gold age.
16.
Those kinds of food can make our body healthy because manyvitamins, proteins, and other elements that our body need to keep healthy and avoided be from diseases.
17.
If we obey the rules to consume the healthy food and do exerciseregularly, we can be avoided from the diseases.
18.
This essay will provide you two ways that can be applied to keep yourbody healthy by eating healthy food and doing exercise.
19.
Eating healthy food will not be successful to keep your body healthy ifit is not supported by doing exercise.
20.
We know exactly that father is always the one who is obeyed by the100
21.
The rules inside or outside the house are more often made by him.22.
Fathers are known for their main role in the family.23.
Once you obey his rules, you will be given that money easily becauseyour fathers know you are good children.
24.
For example, when we are asked to wash the dishes, suddenly wegives many excuses to refuse it.
25.
If your wish want to be fulfilled you need to fulfil your mother wantsand obedient to that she said.
26.
Because our soul’s reflection or aura whether positive or negative willshown outside.
27.
Implementing English as the only language to be used at campuswould lead to a very rapid learning of it.
28.
Learning English can be done in the most natural and quickest way.29.
…many foreign literatures that massively translated to English, …30.
The most important reason why English should used as the onlylanguage at campus is AFTA 2015.
31.
By learning English and getting all the benefits English gives, students101
32.
By learning the language, students are prepared to compete in thefuture’s job market where competition demands them to be better than
others and have a vast array of knowledge and practical skills that English offers.
33.
The proper portion of eating is filled by a half of plate of vegetable, aquarter of plate of rice, and the rest is filled by meat or food containing protein.
34.
Milk is only consumed in the morning when we are on breakfast or inthe evening before we sleep.
35.
We are suggested to sleep 6-8 hours a day because that is the goodtime for our body orghans to rest.
36.
Probably you are addicted to ciggarete or alcohol drink.37.
The air is still contaminated by carbon, as we know every weekend inour cities always arrange car free day.
38.
It means that our food is also important things to be warned about.39.
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40.
We have to keep our physical healthy, because our daily activities arebased on physical activities.
41.
It is a place where everyone are welcomed to study foreign languagefor free.
42.
It is proven that if you laugh more and you will keep illness away fromyou.
43.
If my mother happy all I want will be granted.44.
If my mom see like that she will be granted my request.45.
Smokers do realize that the habit of smoking can be stopped.46.
People all over the world are developing this language, and that is whyit is called as an international language.
47.
We should keep it in our minds that English should be used every time,every minute, and every second.
48.
And finally we will be worth it to be seen and honored by people allover the world.
49.
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50.
As we know, nowadays, students who takes English as their major inthe university are expected to be able to communicate with their classmates and their lecturers by using English not Indonesian.
51.
This condition is caused by educational factor, social factor, and alsothe factor which involves the students’ future after they have graduate
from university.
52.
The factors might be caused by diabetes, heart disease, cancer andmany more.
53.
Sleeping in too much hours also believed to be unhealthy.54.
There two aspects are related and affected one another, …55.
It causes that your fat is burn by your body-movement so that manypeople do exercising to reduce their fat and cholesterol in their body.
56.
Mother is often looked as the ‘master’ at home, …57.
She will decide whether your request(s) is / are permitted or not basedon her values and principles rooted for years.
58.
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59.
Although this is an old-fashioned method and your mother knows itand will not be deceived easily, it makes her heart melt and will possibly allow your request.
60.
Whenever your request is accepted, don’t let her heart break andmistrust you.
61.
Even though your request is rejected, don’t anger to her.62.
It is said like that because students who is going to college is veryconcern about educational language these days is using Indonesian language.
63.
They can improve their life each day and make their life meaningfuland worthy to be live in with healthy body.
64.
Your healthy is depend on your situation.65.
In fact people who eat more vegetables are associated with reduce ofthe risk of developing cancers of lung, breast, colon, cervix, and so forth.
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Appendix 2
Errors Encountered in Passive Sentences
1.
It is a place where everyone are welcomed to study foreign language for free2.
Vegetable and fruits are some healthy food which are needed our body3.
A healthy body are control by ourselves4.
75% human body are made from water.5.
But when we are sick, we are absent, and our salary will be decrease6.
It causes that your fat is burn by your body-movement so that manypeople do exercising to reduce their fat and cholesterol in their body
7.
Don’t be burden because of the steps8.
Don’t ask her to allow you buying alcoholic drinks although you know that is prohibitted9.
Many foreign literatures massively translated to English10.
The most important reason why English should used as the only106
11.
You do not have to try to memorize the words or phrases anymorebecause they will all installed in your mind as the time goes
12.
Because our souls’ reflection or aura whether positive or negative will shown outside13.
Sleeping too long also believed to be unhealthy14.
If we obey the rules to consume the healthy food and do exercise regularly, we can be avoided be from the diseases15.
In fact, people who eat more vegetables associated are with reduce of the risk of developing cancers of lung, breast, colon, cervix, and soforth
16.
If my mom see like that she will be granted my request17.
Those kinds of food can make our body healthy because manyvitamins, proteins, and other elements that our body need to keep
healthy and be avoided from diseases
18.
Your healthy is depend on your situation19.
They can improve their life each day and make their life meaningful and worthy to be lived in with healthy body107
Questionnaire
Dear Writing 3 students,
I am Melisa Kristina, a 6th semester student of English Department at Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University, is taking data in order to
conduct a study. As a researcher, I ask for your favor and willingness to fill
in the questionnaire. Please choose the answer which is right to your state of
affairs.
This data is strictly CONFIDENTIAL and used only for this study.
Your participation does help the researcher. Thank you for your
participation.
Name :
Semester :
1. What kind of explanation text did you compose in your midterm test?
(choose one)
a. Explanation-of-how
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2. Do you use passive voice construction in your explanation text?
(choose one)
a. Yes (skip the question number 3 and 4)
b. No
3. Why do you prefer active voice to passive voice construction in your
explanation text?
________________________________________________________
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4. Do you know that explanation text requires passive voice
construction?
a. Yes
b. No (skip the questions number 5-8)
If you choose ‘yes’ in number 2, please answer these following questions.
5. How often do you construct passive voice in your explanation text?
(choose one)
a. Once
b. 2-6 times
c. 7-11 times
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6. How well is your understanding on passive voice construction?
(choose one)
a. Poor
b. Fair
c. Good
d. Excellent
7. How difficult is constructing passive voice? (choose one)
a. Strongly difficult
b. Mildly difficult
c. Mildly easy
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8. What do you consider the main difficulty of constructing passive
voice? (may choose more than one)
a. Grammar rule of passive voice (e.g. is going / is gone, has
bought / has been bought)
b. Use of irregular and regular verb (e.g. written / writted, read /
readed)
c. Word order of passive elements (e.g. have already given /
already have given)
d. Use of passive voice (in what context or when to construct
passive voice)
e. Other, please specify
