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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.
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.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Making the Passive Voice Active
This lesson explains how to change a sentence from the passive voice to the active voice.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Making the Passive Voice Active
This lesson explains how to change a sentence from the passive voice to the 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.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Active Versus Passive Voice
A description of active and passive voice with examples and explanations.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Write It: Activate Your Verbs [Pdf]
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Learning to Punctuate Direct Addresses in a Voice Filled Story
In this lesson plan, learners will create a persuasive narrative by correctly incorporating interjections and imperative commands.
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.
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.
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.
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 of North Carolina
The Writing Center at Unc Chapel Hill: Passive Voice
How can you avoid the passive voice in your writing? Explore this website to learn how and why not to use this voice in your writing.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Active/passive Voice: More Complex Tenses (English Ii Writing)
In this learning module, students will expand their range of editing skills and improve your writing by replacing passive verbs with active verbs and learning to use verb tense consistently. It will improve their voice, tenses, and mood.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Proper Voice, Tense, and Syntax
This lesson focuses on editing voice, verb tense, and syntax. It includes practice exercises.
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: 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.
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...
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.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Writing Style Seminar
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,...
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.
Other
Teach Ro: Collective Nouns and Verb Agreement Practice
Learn about collective nouns and practice choosing the right verb form for the collective noun subject in each sentence.
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.