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Sophia: The Passive Voice
This screencast [2:25] defines passive voice, offers reasons for its use, explains how to write using it, and provides examples throughout. It also offers links to more information about passive voice.
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Sophia: The Passive Voice vs the Active Voice
This screencast focuses on voice including the difference between active and passive voice, why active voice is preferred, and when it is acceptable to use passive voice. Links to more resources are also provided. Real Player is required
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Emphasis: Using the Passive Voice: Lesson 2
The lesson discusses the passive voice. This lesson is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Emphasis: Using the Passive Voice." [3:53]
Yossarian the Grammarian
Yossarian the Grammarian: Errors Involving Participial Phrases: Part Ii
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian demonstrates how to fix sentence errors that involve particpial phrases which incorporate the passive voice.
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Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
A screencast lesson defining active and passive voice, demonstrating how to construct a sentence in passive voice, and explaining when using passive voice is appropriate. [16:14]
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Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
An animated video lesson followed by notes and additional examples demonstrating how to write in the passive voice and when it would be appropriate to do so. [5:09]
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Sophia: Using Strong Verbs
A video lesson defining a strong verb and explaining how to create strong verbs within a written text by changing passive voice to active voice, eliminating unnecessary qualifiers, and reducing phrases to a single word. [7:24]
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Sophia: The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice: Lesson 2
A slideshow comparing passive active voice and discussing when each is appropriate. It is 2 of 5 in the series titled "The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice."
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Sophia: The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice: Lesson 5
A video lesson explaining the difference between active and passive voice. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "The Passive Voice vs. the Active Voice." [5:16]
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Sophia: Making the Passive Voice Active
This lesson explains how to change a sentence from the passive voice to the active voice. [8:25]