Exploring Active and Passive Voice in English

The video tutorial explains the difference between active and passive voice, illustrating how to transform sentences into passive voice across various tenses. It covers the use of subject and object pronouns, handling sentences with multiple objects, and provides reasons for using passive voice, such as when the subject is unknown, to emphasize the object, or when the subject is obvious from context.

Who is performing the action in an active voice sentence?

• The listener

• The verb

• The subject

• The object

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

In a passive voice sentence, what comes first?

• The action

• The verb

• The subject

• The object

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

What is added to a sentence to change it from active to passive voice?

• A subject pronoun

• An object pronoun

• A form of 'to be' plus the past participle

• A future tense marker

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

How is a future tense sentence converted into passive voice?

• Is + gerund

• Has been + past participle

• Was + past participle

• Will be + past participle

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

In passive voice, is the subject always necessary?

• No, it can be omitted

• Only with modal verbs

• Yes, it's always needed

• Only in future tense

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

What tense uses 'has been' in its passive voice construction?

• Present perfect

• Past perfect

• Future perfect

• Present continuous

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CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.5.1.B-D

CCSS.L.5.1B

CCSS.L.5.1C

CCSS.L.5.1D

When a sentence has two objects, how many passive voice variations can be made?

• One

• Four

• Two

• Three

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

What must be included when the indirect object is used first in a passive sentence?

• An active verb

• A modal verb

• The preposition 'to'

• The preposition 'by'

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

Why might passive voice be used if the subject is unknown?

• To focus on the unknown subject

• To make the sentence more complex

• To highlight the object

• To emphasize the action

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A

What is a reason for using passive voice?

• To emphasize the object of the action

• To make sentences shorter

• To always include the subject

• To avoid using verbs

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CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.8.1B

CCSS.L.8.1D

CCSS.L.8.3A