摘要：The difficulty of a teacher to teach a second language to students can be addressed by contrastiveanalysis, where it is assumed that learning a second language is influenced by the first language acquisition.The purpose of this article is to describe the level of a comparable degree of passive sentences in Indonesian andEnglish to provide benefits as a reference in the teaching of English as a second language. This study wasconducted with qualitative methods, the reference library of resources Indonesian and English. PassiveSentences in Indonesian views of the structure using the "di", "ter" or "ke", in English we use "to be + pastparticiple" depends on the time it happened. Context of the sentence must be considered so that the meaningcontained in them can be understood. Once analyzed and searched in the matching and comparison of passivesentences in Indonesian and English, the authors have found similarities and differences which can bestructurally or pragmatically
关键词：contrastive analysis; comparison; active and passive sentence
