Active and Passive Voice (Past Tense)

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Make an active voice: The presents were delivered to our home by Santa and Rudolph.

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Santa and Rudolph delivered the presents to our home.

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Make a passive voice: The doctor treated the patient for pneumonia.

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The patient was treated for pneumonia.

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Which sentence is written in ACTIVE voice? Options: The burger was cooked medium-well., I cooked the burger medium-well., The burger was cooked medium-well by me., Both A and B are correct.

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I cooked the burger medium-well.

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Joe watered the flowers. Which sentence is written in the correct passive form?

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The flowers were watered by Joe

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Choose the sentence that is written in active voice.

• The horse was guided away from the stables by its owner.
• The owner guided the horse away from the stables.

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The owner guided the horse away from the stables.

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Why should you use the Passive Voice?

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All of them: You don’t want to say who or what did the action, you don’t know who did the action, the object is the most important part of the sentence.

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How should the following sentence be changed to reflect active voice?
Students were given extra points for writing in active voice on their essays by Mrs. Marryat.

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Mrs. Marryat gave extra points to her wonderful students for using active voice on their essays.

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Is the sentence below in Active Voice or Passive Voice?
The eco-woodland house in Wales was built by a family in Wales.

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Passive voice

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Change the active voice sentence into passive voice: Samson read an interesting story.

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An interesting story was read by Samson.

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In which tense is the passive? 'Don Quixote' was written by Cervantes.

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past simple