Curated OER
Active Voice and Passive Voice
For this verb voice worksheet, students identify active voice verbs and passive voice verbs. Students answer fill in the blank questions and rewrite sentences using a specific voice.
Curated OER
Passive Interview
For this passive worksheet, 3rd graders ask two students 5 questions and write their answers. For homework students choose one answer from each question and write a complete sentence.
Curated OER
Passive Practice
In this passive worksheet, 3rd graders check all sentences that are passive in the first 8 questions and check the sentences that are incorrect in the last 7 sentences.
Curated OER
Active or Passive?
In this ESL verbs worksheet, students read an article and decide whether the active or passive voice should be used for each space.
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.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Past Participle
This is an excellent grammar lesson on the past participle for regular and irregular verbs, including a few compound verbs. It also explains how the participle can play the role of the passive voice and the adjective. The tutorial...
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice
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.
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,...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 3: Unit 10: Mi Historia
In this learning module, students learn how to talk about Hispanic culture and the impact it has had on them, their community, and the US. They will practice using the passive voice and different verb tenses. Includes games, 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.
TESL Journal
Internet Tesl Journal: Passive Grammar
This is a short article that makes good points about the passive voice, with examples in Bulgarian and English.
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.
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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: Sentence Pattern Transformations Multiple Transformations
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on making Sentence Patterns Transformations.
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.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Sentence Clarity Presentation
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...
University of Washington
Mary Nell's Grammar Summaries
The University of Washington provides an excellent collection of grammar-related summaries. The collection includes material on verb tenses, agreement, noncount nouns, and many other topics.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: I Wanna: Writing a Persuasive Letter
In this activity, students will experiment with word choice as it relates to persuasion.