Active/Passive Voice and Verbals

What is passive voice?

• a calmer way of talking
• when the subject is not acted upon; but is still in past tense
• when the subject receives the action expressed in the verb; the subject is acted upon

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

In the passive voice, we always know who performs the action.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

What are the components of active voice?

• The subject does the action.

• The object is at the beginning of the sentence.

• The subject comes before the verb.

• Active voice makes your writing clear.

Active or Passive?
I hate homework.

• active
• passive

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Active or Passive?
The game will be canceled if not enough players show up.

• active
• passive

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

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

• Santa and Rudolph deliver the presents to our home.
• Santa and Rudolph delivered the presents to our home.
• Santa and Rudolph have delivered the presents to our home.
• Santa and Rudolph had delivered the presents to our home.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

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

• The patient is treated for pneumonia.
• The patient was treated for pneumonia.
• The patient has been treated for pneumonia.
• The patient had been treated for pneumonia.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Which of the following does not use active voice?

• Jacob Marley, a ghost, visited his old colleague Scrooge.
• Scrooge's old colleague, Jacob Marley, visited him as a ghost.
• Scrooge is visited first by the ghost of his old colleague Jacob Marley.
• As a ghost, Jacob Marley visited his old colleague Scrooge.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Which of the following should be revised for active voice? 

• The story begins on a cold and bleak Christmas Eve in London.
• On a cold and bleak Christmas Eve, the story is told in London by a narrator.
• On a cold and bleak Christmas Eve, the story begins in London. 
• In London, the story begins on a cold and bleak Christmas Eve.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Which sentence is written in ACTIVE voice?

• 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.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A