Curated OER
Integrating Target Structures
Students read short essays on the characteristics of several cities. They discuss these characteristics focusing on the use of the passive and active voice in past tenses.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language Adds Zest!
This slideshow focuses on how to revise writing using concise language by eliminating unnecessary words and redundancy, avoiding generic phrases, using active voice and familiar terms, and looking for just the right words to convey...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
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.
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,...
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Passive and Active Voices
Check out this in-depth look at the function of active and passive voice in writing effective sentences. A quiz is included at the end of the module.
University of Richmond
University of Richmond: Writer's Web: How to Make Sentences Clear and Concise
Four simple rules for students to follow when editing sentences to make them more clear and concise. By looking at the use of prepositions, verb choices, active voice, and more, students can learn to improve their sentence writing...
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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.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Active/passive Voice
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.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Active Versus Passive Voice
A description of active and passive voice with examples and explanations.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Active Passive Voice Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on changing Passive Voice sentences to Active Voice.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Active Passive Voice Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on changing Passive Voice sentences to Active Voice.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Active Passive Voice Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on changing passive voice sentences to active voice.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Active Passive Voice Exercise 4
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on changing passive voice sentences to active voice.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: I Wanna: Writing a Persuasive Letter
In this activity, students will experiment with word choice as it relates to persuasion.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Giving Voice to Opposites
In this lesson, students will develop a narrative in opposing voices.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Learning to Punctuate Direct Addresses in a Voice Filled Story
In this lesson, students will create a persuasive narrative by correctly incorporating interjections and imperative commands.
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.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: An Active & Passive Voice Mini Lesson
Lesson which allows students to explore active/passive voice verb choice through numerous online resources, and then apply these principles to their own writing style.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Passive Voice and Vagaries
Tips on improving writing by eliminating vague statements and using active voice instead of passive voice.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Grammar Basics: Types of Sentences
This site provides multiple resources on the different types of sentences. Students can observe a presentation on simple, compound, and complex sentences, watch a video [4:19] about simple sentences, and link to a video about compound...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
This website provides two presentations on active and passive voice. The first presentation explains the difference between active and passive voice as well as how to build sentences in each voice. The second presentation explains when...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Passive and Active Voice
This tutorial focuses on active and passive voice. Definitions, examples, and the reasons that the active voice is the preferred voice in most cases. It offers a slide show with definitions, examples, when to use, forms of passive voice...