Active Voice
This type of sentence has the subject performing the action.
A: What is active voice?
This type of sentence has the subject receiving the action.
What is passive voice?
“The window was broken by the storm.”
What is passive?
Revise to active: “The homework was finished by Jake.”
What is Jake finished the homework?
In the sentence “The dog chased the ball,” this word is the subject.
Answer: What is the dog?
In passive voice, this helping verb is commonly used (think: “was,” “were,” “is”).
What is a form of to be?
“The students completed the assignment.”
What is active?
Revise to passive: “The team won the game.”
What is The game was won by the team?
Rewrite this in active voice: “The cake was eaten by Sarah.”
What is Sarah ate the cake?
Rewrite this in passive voice: “The chef cooked the meal.”
What was the meal cooked by the chef?
“A song was sung by the choir.”
What is passive?
Revise to active: “The movie was watched by them.”
What is They watched the movie?
Identify the verb in this active sentence: “The teacher explains the lesson.”
What is explains?
Identify the agent (doer) in this sentence: “The book was written by the author.”
What is the author?
“The cat chased the mouse.”
What is active?
Revise to passive: “The scientist discovered a new element.”
What is A new element was discovered by the scientist?
Rewrite this sentence in active voice while keeping the same tense:
“The results will have been analyzed by the scientists.”
What is The winner is going to be announced tomorrow?
Rewrite this sentence in passive voice and keep the correct tense:
“They are going to announce the winner tomorrow.”
What is The winner is going to be announced tomorrow?
“The project has been being completed by the team.”
Identify the voice.
What is passive?
Revise this sentence to active voice and make it clearer:
“Mistakes were made during the experiment.”
What is The researchers made mistakes during the experiment?