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Active and Passive Voice
How are the active and passive voices different, and when should you use each one? The first page of this two-page worksheet contains the rules and several examples. On the second page, your grammarians will be able to put pen to paper...
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Active and Passive Sentences
Work with active and passive voice in several different sentences. Fifth graders learn the difference between active and passive voice, and change nine sentences from passive to active and vice versa. Great practice in your writing unit!
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Active and Passive Voice Worksheet 2
How are active and passive sentences constructed? After introducing your intermediate writers to each and providing examples, complete this two-page instructional activity. Your writers take the sentences written and transform them from...
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Sentence Starters - The Passive Voice
Discuss the active and passive voices with this packet. There are several exercises to complete! First, identify which sentences are active and which are passive. Then, create sentences in the passive voice with the given topic. Finally,...
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Active and Passive Voice Practice
Active or passive? Young grammarians identify the voice in a series of sentences and then rewrite those in passive voice.
University of Delaware
Active and Passive Voice
Here's a handout that not only explains the difference between active and passive voice and when each form should be used, but also provides a practice exercise as well.
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Passive Voice Exercises
Strengthen understanding of grammar and syntax with this task. First, grammarians identify the active and passive voices, then they rewrite individual sentences to be in the active voice before manipulating an entire paragraph. Great...
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Active/Passive Voice
Reinforce your lesson on passive and active voice with this grammar worksheet. Young grammarians review examples of active and passive voice, and then determine which voice is used in a set of ten sentences. Next, learners rewrite...
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The Passive Voice Exercise
A clear example of a sentence in both active and passive voice is shown at the top of this resource and gives writers a clear example to follow. For the next 12 sentences, they change the voice from active to passive.
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The Passive Voice in Questions
In this recognizing the active and passive voice learning exercise, students read interrogative sentences in the active voice and rewrite them in the passive voice. Students write 12 answers.
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Changing from Active to Passive Verbs
In this changing from active to passive worksheet, students change sentences from active to passive keeping the same tenses. Students rewrite ten sentences.
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The Passive Voice with se
Are your Spanish speakers learning about the passive voice? They need this helpful reference tool! These examples will surely help with their sentence construction.
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Active/Passive Voice Recognition Practice
Practice the active and the passive voice with this worksheet. Print this sheet for your class, and they can practice identifying the verb and deciding whether the verb is in the active or passive tense.
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Active Voice and Passive Voice
In this identifying active voice and passive voice learning exercise, students review definitions and examples, label sentences, and rewrite sentences changing the voice from passive to active. Students write seven answers.
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Tenses: Active and Passive
In this active and passive voice worksheet, students fill in the blanks to sentences with verbs in parenthesis in the active and passive voice. Students complete 21 sentences total.
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Active to Passive
Do they inspect the trains, or are the trains inspected? Change twelve sentences from the active voice into the passive voice with a grammar worksheet.
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Changing Passive to Active
Getting tired of reading student papers that are written in the passive voice? Help to make your young writers aware of their writing voice in this active and passive voice learning exercise. They convert ten passive voice sentences to...
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Passive Voice Exercises
What is the difference between the active voice and the passive voice? Focus on the latter with your middle schoolers to help them strengthen their writing. First, they identify which sentences are written in the passive. Then, they...
San José State University
How to Recognize and Eliminate Passive Voice
This handout presents the appropriate times to use the active voice and the passive voice with examples and a short exercise. After reading through the information and examples, pupils transform passive sentences into active sentences.
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Passive Voice and Grammar Checkers
This handout gives an overview of the passive and active voices as well as pointing out that the grammar checkers in word processing programs mark sentences written in the passive voice as incorrect. While this is not an interactive...
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Passive Voice
Passive voice and participial adjectives are the focus of an 11-page resource packet designed for ESL/ELD classes. Language learners engage in activities and complete exercises that give them lots of practice with these constructs.
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Passive Voice
Are you looking for a warm-up activity or quiz about passive and active voice? Use this passive voice practice worksheet, in which students rewrite the ten active voice sentences to passive voice sentences. The activity would be a good...
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Active or Passive Voice
In this online interactive ESL worksheet, learners respond to 10 multiple choice questions regarding active and passive voice. Students may check their answers with the click of the mouse.
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Modals: Passive Voice
Encourage verb tense awareness by focusing on the passive voice. It could be used with a variety of learners, however, a few of the questions should be modified for younger children. By completing this twenty-six question activity,...