Do they inspect the trains, or are the trains inspected? Change twelve sentences from the active voice into the passive voice with a grammar worksheet.

Concepts

active voice, passive voice, Grammar

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• A great addition to your lesson on passive voice and clear writing
• Have kids work on the activity for homework
• Use as a grammar assessment or warm-up exercise

Classroom Considerations

• May not be effective in class if you are trying to encourage the active voice in your learners' writing (or discourage the passive voice)
• Designed for English learners, but it could work in any mainstream class

Pros

• Comes with an answer key for easy assessment
• Provides different versions of the worksheet (attached)

Cons

• None

Common Core

L.4.1.a L.5.1.a L.6.1.a L.7.1.a L.8.1.a L.8.1.b