Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Active/passive Voice: More Complex Tenses (English Ii Writing)
In this learning module, students will expand their range of editing skills and improve your writing by replacing passive verbs with active verbs and learning to use verb tense consistently. It will improve their voice, tenses, and mood.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Active Passive Voice Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on changing Passive Voice sentences to Active Voice.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Active Passive Voice Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on changing passive voice sentences to active voice.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Active Passive Voice Exercise 4
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on changing passive voice sentences to active voice.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Active Passive Voice Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on changing Passive Voice sentences to Active Voice.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice
This slideshow lesson focuses on the passive voice. It defines it, explains the effective uses of passive voice, discusses how to write effective sentences using passive voice, and provides examples.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Active/passive Voice
This entry explains active and passive voice and how to change active to passive and passive to active in sentences. It provides detailed examples of each.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: An Active & Passive Voice Mini Lesson
Lesson which allows young scholars to explore active/passive voice verb choice through numerous online resources, and then apply these principles to their own writing style.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Self Teaching Unit: Active / Passive Voice
This module defines the active and passive voice and explains how to change active to passive voice and passive to active voice. It offers examples of each, practice exercises, and a link to a printable quiz/exercise.
University of North Carolina
The Writing Center at Unc Chapel Hill: Passive Voice
How can you avoid the passive voice in your writing? Explore this website to learn how and why not to use this voice in your writing.
Get It Write
Get It Write: The Passive Voice
Use this tutorial to ensure understanding of the passive voice and about how to use it. Students can test their understanding after the explanation.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice
This lesson introduces the passive voice and how it is formed. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice
A video lesson introduces the passive voice and demonstrates how it is formed within a sentence. [7:09]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Emphasis: Using the Passive Voice
A five-slide presentation reviewing passive voice and explaining the effect of using it properly within a sentence. Examples are provided.
Towson University
Towson University: Active Passive Voice Exercise 4
Learn more about active and passive voice by changing the passive voice sentences into active voice.
Towson University
Towson University: Active Passive Voice Exercise 3
Learn more about active and passive voice by changing the active voice sentences into passive voice.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Active and Passive Voice
Know when to use verbs in the active voice or the passive voice. The active voice shows the subject acting. The passive voice shows something else acting on the subject. Most writers consider the active voice more colorful and avoid the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
A screencast [5:40] demonstrating how to write a sentence in active voice or in passive voice, followed by a downloadable nine-page PDF describing passive voice and its appropriate uses.
Towson University
Towson University: Active Passive Voice Post Test
Test your knowledge of active and passive voice by changing the passive voice sentences into active voice.
Towson University
Towson University: Active / Passive Voice
Learn the difference between active and passive voice as well as several way to change passive sentences into active voice.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Active Versus Passive Voice
A description of active and passive voice with examples and explanations.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Passive Voice and Vagaries
Tips on improving writing by eliminating vague statements and using active voice instead of passive voice.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Active and Passive Verbs in Context
Thse instructional practices use model or mentor sentences to help students learn how authors use conventions to clarify and convey meaning in their writing. These instructional practices are described in detail in Handout 14: Teaching...
Towson University
Towson University: Active Passive Voice Exercise 1
Learn more about active and passive voice by identifying the doer subject and the action verb of these ten sentences.