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Curated Video
Active Voice vs. Passive Voice: Strengthen Your Writing
This video is a teacher-led lesson on active voice in writing. The teacher explains the difference between active and passive voice, provides examples, and guides students through identifying and correcting passive voice sentences. The...
Curated Video
Using Voice Effectively: Emphasizing the Actor or the Action
This video provides a clear explanation of how to effectively use voice in writing by switching between active and passive voices. It discusses the reasons for choosing one over the other and provides examples to illustrate each case.
Curated OER
Active Voice and Passive Voice
Identify the subject of the verb and the agent (whatever is doing the action), and you will be able to discern if your sentence is written in the active or passive voice. Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates by writing examples of each...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Making Passive Voice Active
This screencast explains when and why to use active voice and passive voice in writing and how to change from one voice form to the other. It also includes links to additional web resources for changing voices. [3:08]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Making the Passive Voice Active
This video lesson focuses on changing passive voice sentences into active voice. It begins by asking students to think of sentences as a parking lot with reserved spaces for parts. It shows active voice sentences as SVO order and passive...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice
This screencast [2:25] defines passive voice, offers reasons for its use, explains how to write using it, and provides examples throughout. It also offers links to more information about passive voice.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice vs the Active Voice
This screencast focuses on voice including the difference between active and passive voice, why active voice is preferred, and when it is acceptable to use passive voice. Links to more resources are also provided. Real Player is required
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Emphasis: Using the Passive Voice: Lesson 2
The lesson discusses the passive voice. This lesson is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Emphasis: Using the Passive Voice." [3:53]
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Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
A screencast lesson defining active and passive voice, demonstrating how to construct a sentence in passive voice, and explaining when using passive voice is appropriate. [16:14]
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Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
An animated video lesson followed by notes and additional examples demonstrating how to write in the passive voice and when it would be appropriate to do so. [5:09]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Using Strong Verbs
A video lesson defining a strong verb and explaining how to create strong verbs within a written text by changing passive voice to active voice, eliminating unnecessary qualifiers, and reducing phrases to a single word. [7:24]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Punctuating Dialogue: Lesson 2
This lesson introduces the punctuation and formatting rules for conversations. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Punctuating Dialogue."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice: Lesson 2
A slideshow comparing passive active voice and discussing when each is appropriate. It is 2 of 5 in the series titled "The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice: Lesson 5
A video lesson explaining the difference between active and passive voice. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice." [5:16]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Making the Passive Voice Active
This lesson explains how to change a sentence from the passive voice to the active voice. [8:25]