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Passive Voice Worksheet 1
In this grammar activity, students identify the passive voice constructions in two paragraphs and change the passive voice sentences to active voice.
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Passive Voice and Grammar Checkers
This handout gives an overview of the passive and active voices as well as pointing out that the grammar checkers in word processing programs mark sentences written in the passive voice as incorrect. While this is not an interactive...
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Modals - Passive Voice
In this passive voice worksheet, grammarians fill in the blank with the passive voice of the verb in the parentheses. They then change nine sentences from the active voice to the passive voice. Three exercises develop understanding for...
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Modals: Passive Voice
Bring this modals practice learning exercise to your grammar unit. Middle schoolers respond to twenty-six short answer and fill in the blanks questions that require them to use the appropriate passive voice verbs. This activity is a good...
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Verb Review 1 (Mixed Including Passive)
Cut this sheet in two, and provide each learner with two days worth of bell-ringer activities. English language learners (or those studying English grammar) complete a short activity that has them complete a paragraph using the passive...
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Verbs
Help your learners make their writing more meaningful and lively. They review the ways verbs are used in a sentence, describe passive and active types, and discuss techniques for improving their writing. This resource could be a...
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Verbs
Show your class the importance of verbs in a sentence. Verbs can be passive or active, contributing to voice. Examples of action words are given and sentences are written out in the active and passive voice. Helpful clues are included to...
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Ten Days to A+ Grammar: Verbs
What are you doing today? What have you done this week? What will you be doing next month? Focus on verb usage with a series of fill-in-the-black exercises on basic tenses, inappropriate shifts in tense, and active and passive voice.
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Voice and James Joyce
After reading a text written by James Joyce, middle and high schoolers find examples of passive voice. They share their findings with the class. Use this lesson to emphasize the effect of passive voice in writing.
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English Tenses and Verb Forms
Distinguish between passive and active voice with a grammar instructional activity. It contains three exercises in which pupils turn direct speech into indirect speech and create new sentences using passive voice.
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Changing from Active to Passive Verbs
In this changing from active to passive learning exercise, students change sentences from active to passive keeping the same tenses. Students rewrite ten sentences.
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Nominalization and Passive Voice Exercise
Students distinguish between passive voice and nomialization.
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Active Voice and Passive Voice
In this identifying active voice and passive voice worksheet, students review definitions and examples, label sentences, and rewrite sentences changing the voice from passive to active. Students write seven answers.
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Passive Voice Activity
In this interactive sentence rephrasing worksheet, students rewrite each of the 29 sentences in a passive voice. This worksheet is interactive.
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Changing Verb Voice (Active/Passive) Practice
In this active voice and passive voice practice worksheet, students read an informative instructional activity. Students then respond to 5 questions that require them to identify the voice the sentences are written in and rewrite them in...
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The Passive Voice
Use this resource to introduce the passive voice. The first box highlights important information on the passive voice. The second box contains a short assessment. Are your middle schoolers understanding how to use it?
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ESL: Passive Voice
In this ESL passive voice worksheet, students fill in blanks in a set of 20 sentences, choosing the correct form of a verb given, using the tense indicated in parentheses.
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Passive Verbs: Present and Past Tense
In this passive verbs: present and past tense worksheet, 4th graders interactively enter the correct verb form for 15 sentences immediate online feedback.
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ESL-Passive Voice
In this ESL passive voice worksheet, students read a set of 10 sentences, checking those that are written in the passive voice, check sentences in which the agent is necessary, and fill in blanks with correct verb forms.
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Passive Voice
In this passive voice worksheet, students read 7 sentences and rewrite each of them in the passive voice.
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ESL: Passive Voice
For this ESL passive voice worksheet, students read examples of passive voice in various tenses, then rewrite verbs in sentences in their correct passive form.
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Passive Voice Verbs Worksheet
In this passive voice verb worksheet, they rewrite 5 sentence using a passive verbs, rewrite 4 sentences to maintain meaning, change 10 sentences to the passive form, and change 10 passive sentences into the active form.
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Tense Buster
Students, after using the "Intermediate" selection of the Tense Buster software, recognize and practice using passive voice in their writing. As a result of this task, they correctly use five new vocabulary terms with passive voice in...
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Mixed Verb Review Including Passive Verbs
In this mixed verb review worksheet, students complete 2 paragraphs about a trip to Vancouver using the proper form of verbs shown after each blank line. They fill in 14 blank lines to complete the paragraphs.