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.
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Making the Passive Voice Active
This lesson explains how to change a sentence from the passive voice to the active voice.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Sequence of Tenses
This Purdue University tutorial covers active and passive voices through simple examples.
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences
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.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: How Does a Sentence Make Sense?
This resource explains importance of the agreement of elements in sentences and covers agreement of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Exercises included. L.11-12.3a Syntax
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Grammar Guidelines
Get a collection of self-help handouts on different parts of speech and common usage topics.