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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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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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The Passive Voice in Spanish
The passive voice was mastered by Spanish learners. Your class members can find out all about how to create the passive voice in Spanish using ser, past participles, por, and the impersonal se. Examples are provided for each situation.
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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...
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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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Active Voice vs. Passive Voice
What is the passive voice? What is the active voice? Which voice is typically preferred in writing? Use this worksheet to discuss the different voices. Then, have learners rewrite a series of sentences so that they are in the passive...
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Active and Passive Voices
Work on identifying the passive and active voice with your learners. Show them what each voice emphasizes and the typical syntax for each type. The active voice is encouraged, but the reasons for effectively utilizing passive voice are...
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Structure Practice: The Passive Voice
Use this online interactive worksheet in an ELD class or for younger native speakers. They practice using simple past tense verbs in the passive voice. Many of the constructions are not straightforward, nor often used by early speakers,...
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
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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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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Passive Voice Exercise
Use this online, interactive resource to assess your English language learners' sense of the passive voice. There are 10 incomplete sentences shown, and users must select which of three options contains the correct verb tense.
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Passive Voice Exercises
In this passive voice online worksheet, students identify if each of 5 sentences is in the active or passive voice. They rewrite 5 sentences in the active voice and 5 more in the passive voice. They write the correct passive forms in the...
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The Passive Voice Exercise
Can your writers change a sentence from the active voice to the passive? Test them with this 12-question worksheet. Twelve short sentences are provided, and your learner must edit each so that it uses the passive voice.
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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,...
Grammar Net
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.
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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Nominalization and Passive Voice Exercise
Students distinguish between passive voice and nomialization.
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The Passive Voice in Questions
In this recognizing the active and passive voice worksheet, students read interrogative sentences in the active voice and rewrite them in the passive voice. Students write 12 answers.
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Modals - Passive Voice
In this passive voice worksheet, grammarians fill in the blank with the passive voice of the verb in the parentheses. They then change nine sentences from the active voice to the passive voice. Three exercises develop understanding for...
Verb is the Word
Passive Exercise 2
Learning the difference between the active voice and passive voice can be difficult. Help your pupils along with a practice exercise. Learners must translate nine active sentences covering a variety of topics into the passive voice. The...
Verb is the Word
Passive Exercise 1
Sam really likes coffee, but it's unclear whether Sam drinks the coffee or if the coffee is drunk by Sam. Move from active to passive voice in 12 sentences about Sam's coffee habits. Learners will have to change an irregular verb to the...
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Modals: Passive Voice
Bring this modals practice worksheet to your grammar unit. Middle schoolers respond to twenty-six short answer and fill in the blanks questions that require them to use the appropriate passive voice verbs. This activity is a good way to...
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Passive
Review the passive voice with this printable exercise! Middle and high schoolers choose the appropriate passive verb phrases for 15 sentences to make each one grammatically correct. Don't forget to print the answer page (it appears in a...