Active & Passive Voice
Active voice or passive voice?
The dog chased the cat.
What is active voice?
What type of sentence is this? Simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
She ran to the store.
What is a simple sentence?
What figurative language device is used?
The wind whispered through the trees.
What is personification?
What is the main claim?
The author's main argument or position.
Where is the comma needed?
After school we went home.
After "school"
After school, we went home.
Active voice or passive voice?
The cake was eaten by Maria.
What is passive voice?
What type of sentence is this? Simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
She ran to the store, and she bought milk.
What is a compound sentence?
What figurative language device is used?
He is as fast as a cheetah.
What is simile?
What is a reason?
A statement that supports the claim.
Which coordinating conjunction fits?
I wanted to go, _____ I stayed home.
But
Change to active voice.
The homework was completed by the students.
"The students completed the homework."
What type of sentence is this? Simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
Although she was tired, she ran to the store.
What is a complex sentence?
What figurative language device is used?
time is a thief.
What is a metaphor?
What is evidence?
Facts, examples, or data that support a reason.
Hyphen or dash?
She has a well known author.
Hyphen
well-known
Why might an author use passive voice?
To hide the subject
To make it less clear who did the action
To emphasize the action instead of the doer
What type of sentence is this? Simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
She ran to the store, and she bought milk because she was out.
What is bias?
What figurative language device is used?
Boom! The fireworks exploded.
What is onomatopoeia?
What is a counterclaim?
The opposing viewpoint.
Fix the sentence:
My brother who lives in Texas is visiting.
My brother, who lives in Texas, is visiting.
Identify and revise the voice.
Mistakes were made during the experiment.
What is passive voice?
"The scientists made mistakes during the experiment."
Create a complex sentence using: "because"
Answers will vary
What figurative language device(s) is used?
The stars danced in the sky like sparkling diamonds.
What is personification and simile?
What is a rebuttal?
A response that explains why the counterclaim is wrong.
Which punctuation adds emphasis.
I only needed one thing ____ a pencil.
I only needed one thing—a pencil.