This slideshow lesson focuses on the passive voice. It defines it, explains the effective uses of passive voice, discusses how to write effective sentences using passive voice, and provides examples.

A five-slide presentation reviewing passive voice and explaining the effect of using it properly within a sentence. Examples are provided.

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...

A screencast [5:40] demonstrating how to write a sentence in active voice or in passive voice, followed by a downloadable nine-page PDF describing passive voice and its appropriate uses.

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.

This entry explains active and passive voice and how to change active to passive and passive to active in sentences. It provides detailed examples of each.

This lesson explains how to change a sentence from the passive voice to the active voice.

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.

Learn the difference between active and passive voice as well as several way to change passive sentences into active voice.

Learn more about active and passive voice by changing the active voice sentences into passive voice.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Edit an essay for active voice and complex tenses.

This lesson focuses on editing voice, verb tense, and syntax. It includes practice exercises.

Test your knowledge of active and passive voice by changing the passive voice sentences into active voice.

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.

This is a short article that makes good points about the passive voice, with examples in Bulgarian and English.

Determine if each of these ten sentences is written in active voice or in passive voice. Answers are provided.

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...

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...

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.

Using a form of the verb SER and a past participle is one of three ways this grammar tutorial teaches the passive voice. In addition, the impersonal SE is used with examples, along with the impersonal SE plus an indirect pronoun plus a...

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.

This video lesson focuses on auxiliary verbs including defining the term auxiliary, providing examples, and explaining their three purposes: to create shades of meaning, passive tense, and emphasis.

In this lesson, students will create a persuasive narrative by correctly incorporating interjections and imperative commands.

This presentation is designed to teach your students about common sentence clarity problems, including misplaced modifiers, dangling modifiers, and passive voice, as well as strategies for combining sentences together. The twenty-nine...