ABSTRACT
The title of this paper is ―A Brief Study of Passive Voice Used by F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s Novel The Great Gatsby‖. It is about the use of passive voice in sentences found in the novel. The purpose of writing this paper is to know the details about the precentage of passive voice used in this novel, how many sentences can be found in this novel, how many kind of sentences used in the novel, and to determine how many kind of tenses that used in the novel. Thus, data shows that there are 1218 sentences in 4 even chapters used by the author to write the novel and 59 passive voice found in the novel.
Keywords : tenses, passive voice
