The passive

Check all of the boxes that apply: we use the passive for....

• Reporting crimes or incidents with unknown perpetrators.

• Scientific contexts.

• When the doer of the action is irrelevant or distracting.

• When you want to emphasize the action itself.

• When the performer of an action is unknown.

What is the passive voice?

• A sentence in which a verb shows that subject does an action.

• A sentence in which the form of verb shows that an action is done to the subject.

Check all of the boxes that apply: we use the active voice for....

• Making writing stronger.

• Making writing less direct.

• Making writing more direct.

• Making writing less active.

• Making writing more active

What is the active voice?

• A sentence in which the form of verb shows that an action is done to the subject.

• A sentence in which a verb shows that subject does an action.

Change the sentence from active to passive: Our dog did not bite the cat.

Change the sentence from active to passive: The electricians test the fire alarm.

Change the sentence from active to passive: Someone smashed our window last night.

Change the sentence from active to passive: The postman delivers 8 letters every day.

Change the sentence from passive to active: The car is being cleaned by Sally.

Change the sentence from active to passive: The poem was read aloud by Margaret.