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Passive/Active Test
In this passive and active tenses worksheet, students choose the correct tense to fit a given sentence. Students also identify transitive and intransitive verbs.
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The Choking Dog: Exercise on Passive Voice
In this passive voice worksheet, students change the given active sentence to passive. Students can check their answers or ask for hints.
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Verb Review 1 and 2 (Mixed Including Passive)
In this verb review instructional activity, students conjugate the verbs in parenthesis to make the paragraphs grammatically correct. There are 17 blanks to fill in with the proper verb forms.
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Verb Review (Mixed Including Passive)
In this verb worksheet, students conjugate the verbs in the parenthesis to make the paragraph grammatically correct. There are 14 verbs to conjugate.
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Part I: Principle of Effective Writing
Designed for higher education, this 151-slide presentation focuses on effective writing techniques, specifically in scientific manuscripts. While the slides contain readable amounts of text (none are text heavy), consider spreading this...
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Revising for Clarity: Characters and Their Actions
This handout offers a three-step process for revising sentences for clarity: diagnose, analyze, revise. After reading an example sentence revision with a detailed explanation, learners complete three sample sentences using the three-step...
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Changing Passive to Active
In this changing passive to active voice learning exercise, students rewrite the sentences without changing the verb tenses. Students rewrite ten sentences.
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Social Movements in American Politics
Young scholars explore American social movements. In this writing skills lesson plan, students read Orwell's "Politics and the English." Young scholars then apply the rules for writing that are included in the piece. Students follow-up...
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Examining Letters to the Editor
Students write letters to the editor. In this written communication lesson, students read sample letters to the editor and use the active voice to compose letters to the editor about issues in which they are interested.
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Examining Letters to the Editor
Students write letters to the editor. In this written communication lesson, students read sample letters to the editor and use the active voice to compose letters to the editor about issues they are interested in.
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Passive Practice
In this passive worksheet, 3rd graders check all sentences that are passive in the first 8 questions and check the sentences that are incorrect in the last 7 sentences.
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Passive Interview
In this passive worksheet, 3rd graders ask two students 5 questions and write their answers. For homework students choose one answer from each question and write a complete sentence.
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Causative Structures 3
In this causative structures worksheet, students, after reviewing active/passive verbs, choose which causative structure grammatically makes ten sentences correct.
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Causative Structures 2
In this causative structures worksheet, students, after reviewing active/passive verbs, choose the correct verb out of a choice of three for each of ten sentences.
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The Attack On Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941
In this Pearl Harbor worksheet, students read about what happened on December 7th, 1941, read Roosevelt's speech in response, and complete activities in the passive voice about what they read. Students write the past participle of 10...
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Newspaper Passive Texts
In this passive texts worksheet, students read newspaper articles and put them into the passive form. Students put 4 articles into the passive form.
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Verb Review: Mixed Including Passive
In this verbs worksheet, students fill in the correct form of the verb in parentheses in a three paragraph text about visiting Vancouver.
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Editing and Proofreading
This task is best utilized after a rough draft revision is completed. Writers pair-up and identify when the author uses the passive voice, clichés, and wordiness. Basic examples for the revision points are provided for the...
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Writing An Article
Young writers compose an article on the benefits of healthy eating. They are coached on how to use the passive voice in their writing. On the whiteboard, they brainstorm ideas of why healthy eating is important, then use those ideas to...
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Integrating Target Structures
Pupils read short essays on the characteristics of several cities. They discuss these characteristics focusing on the use of the passive and active voice in past tenses.
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Letter of Complaint
Students write letters of complaint. In this written communication lesson, students use the active voice to compose letters of complaint to selected audiences.
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Letter of Complaint
Students compose letters of complaint. In this written communication lesson plan, students read sample letters of complaint and use the provided graphic organizer to analyze them.
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ESL: Grammar Revision and Practice
In this ESL grammar revision and practice worksheet, students complete activities choosing correct prepositions of time, active and passive voice verbs, and comparatives, complete reported speech and "say/tell" activities and correct...
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Understanding and Identifying Verbs
Students practice identifying the subject and verbs in sentences. In this verb lesson, students can explain the difference between active and passive verbs. Students complete a grade appropriate work sheet.