Active and Passive Voice

The subject performs the action.

(Subject, Action, Object)

• Active Voice

• Passive Voice

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CCSS.L.6.6

Select all the sentences written in an active voice.

• Mike is baking a cake.

• A song has been recorded by Lisa

• The construction company demolished the building a day early.

• My friends and I will be driving to Vermont this weekend.

The subject receives the action.

(Object, Action, Subject)

• Active Voice

• Passive Voice

Select all the sentences written in an passive voice.

• The game was won by the home team.

• A novel has been written by the author.

• John wrote a letter to his grandmother.

• It will be made tomorrow

The computer lab was used by the Psychology class.

• Active Voice

• Passive Voice

New workers were hired by the company last year.

• Active Voice

• Passive Voice

The police caught the thief.

• Active Voice

• Passive Voice

The police have been watching that house for weeks.

• Active Voice

• Passive Voice

Select the sentence that is written in the active voice.

• The hall was being decorated when I arrived.

• They were decorating the hall when I arrived.

Select the sentence that is written in the passive voice.

• A song has been recorded by Lisa.

• Lisa has recorded a song.