Curated OER
Concern over Assam Rhinos
Students study the illegal hunting of wild animals (rhinos) in India. They read a short news report, review related vocabulary, and complete a vocabulary matching exercise.
Curated OER
Fun With Formatting
Learners investigate the concept of using a word processing program with the intention of improving formatting skills like centering text. They also highlight different text sections and demonstrate how to save changes made to a document...
Curated OER
From Ordinary To Extraordinary Writing
High schoolers investigate the quality of writing while focusing on the use of sensory words to convey meaning and ideas. The power of similes and metaphors is emphasized while they create and edit works of writing. The skill of...
Curated OER
Calculating Postage
High schoolers explore the services available to them at their local post office. As a class, students discuss the function of each method of delivery. High schoolers choose a postal option appropriate to a scenario the instructor...
Curated OER
Where Do I Fit In The Food Pyramid?
Students discuss how their daily diets fit into the dietary guidelines set out by the food pyramid. They write a paragraph describing good health habits and identify areas where their personal diet can be improved.
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...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Passive Voice and Vagaries
Tips on improving writing by eliminating vague statements and using active voice instead of passive voice.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Passive and Active Voices
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.
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.
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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Introduction
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...
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.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Text Level Measurements of Adequate Writing
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about how to check for text-level measurements of adequate writing grammar rules in an essay. This resource will explain the importance of the following: readability, lexical density,...
TESL Journal
Internet Tesl Journal: Passive Grammar
This is a short article that makes good points about the passive voice, with examples in Bulgarian and English.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Understanding the Ed Ending
This unit focuses on the -ed ending; it offers 15 pages of information and practices about the -ed ending. These explain the uses of the ending including in past tense, perfect tense, certain adjectives, passive voice, and clauses. It...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 13.1: Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that teach how to identify and correct errors in subject/verb agreement, comma splices, sentence fragments, capitalization of titles and...
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Verbs and Verbals
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...
University of Washington
Mary Nell's Grammar Summaries
The University of Washington provides an excellent collection of grammar-related summaries. The collection includes material on verb tenses, agreement, noncount nouns, and many other topics.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Verbs: Voice: Active or Passive Quiz
Determine if each of these ten sentences is written in active voice or in passive voice. Answers are provided.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Verbs: Passive and Active Voices
Explanations and examples of active and passive voices. Links to additional information, examples and a quiz are also available.
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.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Past Participle
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...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many examples.