Active vs Passive Voice in Writing

Front

Does not use active voice:

Back

Scrooge is visited first by the ghost of his old colleague Jacob Marley.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Front

Revise for active voice: On a cold and bleak Christmas Eve, the story is told in London by a narrator.

Back

On a cold and bleak Christmas Eve, the story is told in London by a narrator.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Front

A package was sent to Caroline.

Back

Active

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Front

The Old Man and the Sea, 1951, by Hemingway.

Back

Passive

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Front

Active or Passive? I hate homework.

Back

active

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Front

Active voice definition

Back

Subject performs the verb.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Front

He must have had a bad dream.

Back

Active Voice

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Front

Teacher may be absent due to illness.

Back

Active Voice

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Front

I gave him a book for his birthday.

Back

Active

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Front

Active voice: The oven has been tested by the best chefs in the world.

Back

The best chefs in the world have tested the oven.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A