Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Active and Passive Voice
A good resource that clearly outlines the differences, uses, and purposes of the active and passive voice, both in writing and in verb construction. Includes charts and examples. Click through all the sub-topics for the complete...
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.
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.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Passive Voice and Vagaries
Tips on improving writing by eliminating vague statements and using active voice instead of passive voice.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Grammar Basics: Types of Sentences
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
This website provides two presentations on active and passive voice. The first presentation explains the difference between active and passive voice as well as how to build sentences in each voice. The second presentation explains when...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
This tutorial focuses on active and passive voice. Definitions, examples, and the reasons that the active voice is the preferred voice in most cases. It offers a slide show with definitions, examples, when to use, forms of passive voice...
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: 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.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Voice and Mood
A helpful outline of verb structures, including active and passive voice. Imperative, indicative, and subjunctive moods are also included. A printable version is linked.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Active and Passive Voice More Complex Tenses
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Edit an essay for active voice and complex tenses.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Voice
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.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Voice
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.
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...
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...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Revising Passive Constructions
Test your knowledge of active and passive voice by changing the passive voice sentences into active voice.
University College London
University College London: Verbs Voice
This site has information on the active and passive verb voice. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
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
Learn the difference between active and passive voice as well as several way to change passive 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.
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.
Other
The Business Writing Center: Passive and Active Voice
Learn about active and passive voice and practice changing passive voice sentences into active voice.
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.