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.
Language Guide
Language Guide: Los Pasivos
Using a form of the verb SER and a past participle is one of three ways this grammar tutorial teaches the passive voice. In addition, the impersonal SE is used with examples, along with the impersonal SE plus an indirect pronoun plus a...
Other
Spanish Language Exercises: Se Pasivo
There are five short writing exercises that are in context with what a native Spaniard might experience using the passive voice. Nice graphics accompany each sentence nicely integrating a cultural lesson. Students have an oppotunity at...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Text Level Measurements of Adequate Writing
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about how to check for text-level measurements of adequate writing grammar rules in an essay. This resource will explain the importance of the following: readability, lexical density,...
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.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Understanding the Ed Ending
This unit focuses on the -ed ending; it offers 15 pages of information and practices about the -ed ending. These explain the uses of the ending including in past tense, perfect tense, certain adjectives, passive voice, and clauses. It...
TES Global
Blendspace: Time Past Simple
This sixty-part learning module provides assorted references for verb tenses. This blendspace provides reproducible resources video lesson and practice exercises for past verb tenses.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Emphasis: Using the Passive Voice
A five-slide presentation reviewing passive voice and explaining the effect of using it properly within a sentence. Examples are provided.
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: Identifying the Subject
This lesson focuses on identifying the subject of sentences; it defines and discusses what a subject does. It explains how to locate the subject in various sentence constructions: subject-verb order, inverted sentences, passive voice,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Identifying the Subject
This video lesson focuses on locating the subject in different sentence constructions such as passive voice, inverted sentences, and sentences where the subject is a complete clause. It provides examples and provides questions for the...
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice
A video lesson introduces the passive voice and demonstrates how it is formed within a sentence. [7:09]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Passive Voice
This lesson introduces the passive voice and how it is formed. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Voice and Mood
A helpful outline of verb structures, including active and passive voice. Imperative, indicative, and subjunctive moods are also included. A printable version is linked.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Voice
This lesson focuses on active and passive voice including how to identify each, how to change passive to active voice, and when passive voice is appropriate.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 13.1: Common Errors in Grammar and Punctuation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples that teach how to identify and correct errors in subject/verb agreement, comma splices, sentence fragments, capitalization of titles and...
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...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Revising Passive Constructions
Test your knowledge of active and passive voice by changing the passive voice sentences into active voice.
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
University College London
University College London: Verbs Voice
This site has information on the active and passive verb voice. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.