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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Self Teaching Unit: Active / Passive Voice

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Global Education Holdings: How to Revise: Eliminating Passive Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An eleven-question quiz asking students to identify active and passive voice in sentences. Percentage grades and correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Active and Passive Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Voice and Mood

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A helpful outline of verb structures, including active and passive voice. Imperative, indicative, and subjunctive moods are also included. A printable version is linked.
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Towson University

Towson University: Active Passive Voice Exercise 4

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Learn more about active and passive voice by changing the passive voice sentences into active voice.
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Towson University

Towson University: Active Passive Voice Post Test

For Students 6th - 9th
Test your knowledge of active and passive voice by changing the passive voice sentences into active voice.
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Towson University

Towson University: Active / Passive Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn the difference between active and passive voice as well as several way to change passive sentences into active voice.
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Towson University

Towson University: Active Passive Voice Exercise 3

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn more about active and passive voice by changing the active voice sentences into passive voice.
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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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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Active and Passive Voice More Complex Tenses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Edit an essay for active voice and complex tenses.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Editing for Proper Voice, Tense, and Syntax

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on editing voice, verb tense, and syntax. It includes practice exercises.
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Other

The Business Writing Center: Passive and Active Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about active and passive voice and practice changing passive voice sentences into active voice.
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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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Towson University

Towson University: Active Passive Voice Exercise 1

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn more about active and passive voice by identifying the doer subject and the action verb of these ten sentences.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Write It: Activate Your Verbs [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Three page, PDF format handout that explains passive verbs, and when and how to avoid them. The third page contains some practice exercises. Colorful page with a good amount of information packed in to a fairly small space.
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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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TESL Journal

Internet Tesl Journal: Passive Grammar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a short article that makes good points about the passive voice, with examples in Bulgarian and English.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Giving Voice to Opposites

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson plan, students will develop a narrative in opposing voices.
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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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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is an introduction to a Grammar and Writing unit. It focuses on a review of dependent and independent clauses, writing concise sentences, avoiding passive voice, formatting writing assignments, documenting sources using MLA...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Concise Language: Wordiness

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on using concise language by eliminating wordy construction in writing. It explains why writing needs to be concise and ways to do so by eliminating unnecessary passive tense, wordy constructions, and words...
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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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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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