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Active Voice and Passive Voice Instructional VideoActive Voice and Passive Voice Instructional Video
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Active Voice and Passive Voice

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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 on this whiteboard.

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direct objects, Grammar, active voice, passive voice, parts of speech

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active voice, passive voice, transitive verb, direct object, parts of speech, subject of verb, english language arts
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Resource Details

Grade
4th - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Instructional Videos
Media Length
8:17
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For Teacher Use
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Flipped Classroom
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