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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Passive Voice and Vagaries

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tips on improving writing by eliminating vague statements and using active voice instead of passive voice.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Active and Passive Voice

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
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...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Voice

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a non-graded active and passive voice practice including identifying active and passive voice sentences, determining what the passive voice is doing in sentences, and changing passive to active voice.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Passive and Active Voices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Check out this in-depth look at the function of active and passive voice in writing effective sentences. A quiz is included at the end of the module.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Grammar: Voice

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on active and passive voice including how to identify each, how to change passive to active voice, and when passive voice is appropriate.
Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Grammar Basics: Types of Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides multiple resources on the different types of sentences. Students can observe a presentation on simple, compound, and complex sentences, watch a video [4:19] about simple sentences, and link to a video about compound...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Revising Passive Constructions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Test your knowledge of active and passive voice by changing the passive voice sentences into active voice.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Verbs and Verbals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource is a grammar primer page that focuses on verbs and verbals. It provides information and practice for verb tenses, verb forms, active and passive voice, and much more. L.9-10.4b Patterns/word changes, L.11-12.4b...
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University College London

University College London: Verbs Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has information on the active and passive verb voice. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
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English Club

English Club: Learn English: Verbs: Voice: Active or Passive Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine if each of these ten sentences is written in active voice or in passive voice. Answers are provided.
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English Club

English Club: Learn English: Verbs: Passive and Active Voices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explanations and examples of active and passive voices. Links to additional information, examples and a quiz are also available.
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Study Languages

Study Spanish: Past Participle

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an excellent grammar lesson on the past participle for regular and irregular verbs, including a few compound verbs. It also explains how the participle can play the role of the passive voice and the adjective. The tutorial...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many examples.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Self Teaching Units

For Students 9th - 10th
This page provides a list of links to self-teaching units on grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, active and passive voice, and more. Each provides an explanation with examples, followed by a practice exercise.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Sequence of Tenses

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Purdue University tutorial covers active and passive voices through simple examples.
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University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
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University of North Carolina

Univ. Of North Carolina: Seeing and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run Ons

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is a sentence fragment and a run-on sentence? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Students and teachers can utilize this informative site to improve their writing skills.
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Other

Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Grammar Guidelines

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Get a collection of self-help handouts on different parts of speech and common usage topics.
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: How Does a Sentence Make Sense?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains importance of the agreement of elements in sentences and covers agreement of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Exercises included. L.11-12.3a Syntax