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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.
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: The Passive Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A video lesson introduces the passive voice and demonstrates how it is formed within a sentence. [7:09]
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Emphasis: Using the Passive Voice

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A five-slide presentation reviewing passive voice and explaining the effect of using it properly within a sentence. Examples are provided.
Handout
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...
Handout
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.
Activity
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.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Learning to Punctuate Direct Addresses in a Voice Filled Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, learners will create a persuasive narrative by correctly incorporating interjections and imperative commands.
Handout
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.
Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching Active and Passive Verbs in Context

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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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.
Website
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...
Activity
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.
Activity
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.
Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: I Wanna: Writing a Persuasive Letter

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this instructional activity, students will experiment with word choice as it relates to persuasion.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many examples.
Unit Plan
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...
Handout
Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
This page offers a list of links to entries about sentence structure including elements of sentence construction, sentence types and punctuation, connectors, sentence patterns, pattern transformations, and active/passive voice.
Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Verbs and Verbals

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Handout
Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Sentence Pattern Transformations

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry focuses on sentence pattern transformations including to active/passive voice, cleft, interrogative with yes or no answer, negative, emphasis, and to interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory. It includes an explanation and...
Unit Plan
Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Self Teaching Units

For Students 9th - 10th
This page provides a list of links to self-teaching units on grammar, punctuation, sentence structure, active and passive voice, and more. Each provides an explanation with examples, followed by a practice exercise.
Handout
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Writing Style Seminar

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This detailed resource provides a good tutorial on writing style, whether informal or formal. It explains how to get style through word and sentence choice and includes lots of examples. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv,...
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Sentence Patterns Transformations Exercise 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on making Sentence Patterns Transformations.
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Sentence Patterns Transformations Exercise 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on making Sentence Patterns Transformations.
Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Sequence of Tenses

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This Purdue University tutorial covers active and passive voices through simple examples.

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